[tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 28 Okt 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> I cannot test other Indic scripts because I do not know them. Tibetan
> script may be difficult.

Tibetan is much simpler than Devanagari scripts. It has a certain amount
of fixed ligatures, plus a fw rules if one wants to make non-standard
ligatures (practically only used for transcribing Sanskrit texts). I wrote
long time ago otp/ocp for omega to do the stuff. That can easilybe
proted to luatex.

WRT xetex, I don't know much about good otf fonts for Tibetan, but
there are for sure some.

Best wishes

Norbert
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