On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thierry Bouche wrote: > Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > > > > > - The output encoding is limited to 8 bit fonts, which may not be > > > > enough to get correct kerning for some languages. (Can someone > > > > confirm or correct this???) > > > > > > We need some examples. I can't find any. > > a full swash italic font with automatic ligaturing for uppercases > (including accented ones), plus maybe automatic ligaturing of some extra > pairs than the standard ones, and maybe also automatic selection of long > s/short s or other special ending charachters. I received TUGboat 2000:2 yesterday, and read about such things in the rich fonts article there. But it is really weird to me that when I was making that comment, I was ignorant of the situation with Arabic (language, and not the script) typography, where huge amount of ligatures are normal. --roozbeh