David Webber wrote:
> From the practical end of the telescope (or one telescope at least),
> I've been trying to find out what support Windows APIs offer for some
> of the OpenType features we've been discussing. It appears this
> support was introduced in Windows 7, (in the form of the
> "DirectWrite" API) and back-fitted (to some extent at least) into
> Vista, but it is not planned to make it available in Windows XP.
I see standard ligatures ('liga') correctly rendered in Notepad under
Windows XP at least in OpenType fonts with postscript outlines (e.g. in
IM FELL English PRO typeface). It seems unlikely that Notepad uses any
sort of specialized API. Did you try to enable support for Eastern
languages in Control Panel in Windows XP?
--
Emil Wojtacki
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