tisimst wrote:Solely relying upon OpenType functionality, I don't think there's really any other way than what you have described: lots of precomposed composite glyphs and a bunch of well-defined substitution rules. You wouldn't be able to create arbitrary composite glyphs on the fly, so you'd need to work out all the sensible permutations before hand. Thankfully, creating the glyphs isn't very hard. Just takes some time to set it up properly and requires a word processor that will follow the prescribed substitution rules.Knut wrote:I would rely on kerning pairs and a vast catalogue of precomposed glyphs to be called from the keyboard using some kind of code scheme...
The entered code would call upon a series of precomposed glyphs, ...
The scheme could probably be simplified, but you would need to keep the different plains of script separate, and the whole thing well structured.
Thanks, tisimst!
That's reassuring.
As long as the amount of glyphs is manageable, would you consider any other solutions than except relying on OpenType functionality?