Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Anchors for diacritics (mark and mkmk)

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Yesterday at 13:33, Sander Vesik wrote:

> On 8/22/05, Keenan Pepper <kee...@gm...> wrote:
>> Denis Jacquerye wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > This is an issue at two levels actually; the OpenType font has to have
>> > anchor for marks (diacritics) and other things; and the display system
>> > has to be able to handle it. Right now Linux kind of sucks in that
>> > regard for latin scripts.
>> 
>> Are you talking about FreeType? Is there a bug report / feature request filed
>> for this?
>
> Not specificly freetype. Its more like "all toolkits" ;-) Its probably
> a higher level matter than freetype in some regards though yes,
> reetype should support it in the opentype layou part. OTOH just
> freetype support won't buy you much atm.

Yeah, it's probably high level thing such as the following Pango bug
(applies to Gtk+ and all the other Pango-using stuff): 
 
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101079

But, Denis has already commented on that bug, so he is certainly aware
of it :)

Cheers,
Danilo