le 2001/10/30 14:55, tedd à tedd@... a écrit :

> In there you can find whatever characters you guys are talking about
> and give it a code point. However, if it's not there, then it's
> extinct.

true and false. one of the wonders of opentype is that as it accepts
hinting; you note that when two specific chars are together you substitute
the ligature [or propose it - we wouldn't want an over enthousiastic
opentype word processor to propose, for example 'p&er' for 'peter' when
writing in french - or, maybe we would :-) ].

you thus prepare a 'pool' of ligatures, and substitute on the fly.

this is also used for languages like arabic where the form of the letters
change according to context. [otherwise, of course, you'd have to provide a
specific code for each double-letter combination in these languages, and
even unicode would through in the towel at that number of possibilities].

:-j