[mpeg-OTspec] New cmap format

[John Hudson]

On 03/04/12 5:48 PM, Opstad, Dave wrote:

> So if my font has, say, an "abc' precomposed form, its unicodes[] array in its GlyphInfo structure could have the three Unicodes 'a', 'b', and 'c' in that order, and the FeatureInfo for the glyph could identify the features (OpenType and AAT) that cause the precomposed form to be made. It's not exactly the same as your notion, in that 'Zapf' provides a list of Unicodes and not glyphs, but it's quite similar, I think.

But sort of the opposite in that, so far as I understand, it maps a 
sequence of multiple Unicodes to a single glyph, whereas I am proposing 
mapping single Unicodes to a sequence of multiple glyphs.

I'm thinking in terms of stripping fonts down to the minimum set of 
glyphs necessary to compose Unicode text on the fly using positioning 
features.

J.



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