Re: [Indic-computing-devel] How are indic fonts rendered?

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:10:40AM -0800, Keyur Shroff wrote:
> > 
> >   - do (A) and (B) have to be done multiple times?
> 
> Yes. It has to be done for each syllable.

Let me pose the question in a different way - can it be done with one
pass over the character codes ? If not, can you give an example of a 
character code string, where multiple passes would be necessary to 
determine the correct sequence of glyphs ?

Also a related question - are there any algorithms to efficiently
determine how far back do you go in a string of characters (for doing
a re-layout), when somebody hits a backspace ? Stop at the word boundary ?

Is it correct to state that the state machine that you talked about is
specified in the font file and not a special purpose library ?

	-Arun