[MPEG-OTSPEC] CSS WG liaison to SC29 on Open Font Format (from Feb. 2020)

[John Hudson]

Simon Cozens attempted an implementation of JSTF table support a few 
years ago, in an effort to find out whether it was actually 
implementable. As I recall, he determined that much of it could be 
implemented, but that there were some holes or things that could be 
improved. As far as I know, there is no JSTF table support in any 
shipping software, which I guess at least means we wouldn’t break 
anything were we to revise the spec to produce something workable for CSS.

JH


On 2024-02-20 12:39 pm, Vladimir Levantovsky via mpeg-otspec wrote:
> The liaison statement I mentioned during today's call can be found here:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2020Feb/att-0005/CSS-SC29-20200113.pdf
>
> One of the aspects mentioned in the CSS WG statement is related to 
> using cursive elongation for text justification purposes, which may be 
> desirable for cursive writing and could be essential e.g. for many 
> Arabic scripts - I am wondering if this can already be accomplished 
> using JSTF table, and whether the existing specification needs to be 
> updated to support it.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
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