Devanagari OpenType specification

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Devanagari OpenType Specification

Creating and supporting OpenType fonts for the Devanagari script
This document presents information that will assist font developers in creating fonts for all Devanagari script languages covered by the Unicode Standard 3.1, including classical Sanscrit. Other languages written with the Devanagari script include; Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi. Font developers will learn how to encode complex script features in their fonts, choose character sets, organize font information, and use existing tools to produce Devanagari fonts. Registered features of the Devanagari script are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Devanagari layout tables for OpenType fonts.
Devanagari shaping
Reph feature applied with multiple consonants.
This document also presents information about the Devanagari OpenType shaping engine of Uniscribe, an operating system component responsible for text layout.
In addition to being a primer and specification for the creation and support of Devanagari fonts, this document is intended to more broadly illustrate the OpenType Layout architecture, feature schemes, and operating system support for shaping and positioning text.

Contents

Terms
How the Devanagari shaping engine works
Features for the Devanagari script
Other encoding issues
Appendix

Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names, and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation.
this page was last updated 20 March 2002
© 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Microsoft, MS, Windows, NT, MS Word and OpenType are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

Devanagari OpenType Specification

Microsoft Typography | Developer information | Specifications | OpenType font development



	Microsoft Typography \| Developer information \| Specifications \| OpenType font development

	Devanagari OpenType Specification



		Creating and supporting OpenType fonts for the Devanagari script This document presents information that will assist font developers in creating fonts for all Devanagari script languages covered by the Unicode Standard 3.1, including classical Sanscrit. Other languages written with the Devanagari script include; Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi. Font developers will learn how to encode complex script features in their fonts, choose character sets, organize font information, and use existing tools to produce Devanagari fonts. Registered features of the Devanagari script are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Devanagari layout tables for OpenType fonts. Reph feature applied with multiple consonants. This document also presents information about the Devanagari OpenType shaping engine of Uniscribe, an operating system component responsible for text layout. In addition to being a primer and specification for the creation and support of Devanagari fonts, this document is intended to more broadly illustrate the OpenType Layout architecture, feature schemes, and operating system support for shaping and positioning text. Contents Terms How the Devanagari shaping engine works Features for the Devanagari script Other encoding issues Appendix Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names, and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation. this page was last updated 20 March 2002 © 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, MS, Windows, NT, MS Word and OpenType are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.


	Devanagari OpenType Specification

	Microsoft Typography \| Developer information \| Specifications \| OpenType font development