[xep-support] Support for Arabic Glyph Shaping?

[W. Eliot Kimber]

David Tolpin wrote:
>>Has XEP added support for Arabic glyph shaping, and if not, is it likely 
>>to by the time of XML Europe?
>>
> 
> 
> Even earlier.

Cool. What about Thai glyph composition?

If XEP can do Arabic glyph shaping and Thai glyph composition it will be 
very close to matching XSL Formatter for internationalization support. 
These two features are one of the key reasons that my multinational 
customers cannot consider XEP as a solution right now.

The only other real showstopper for us is lack of full-page footnotes 
for multi-column pages (I have a client that uses footnotes within 
multi-column pages and the footnotes must be page wide).

Also, XEP's interpretation of the implications of writing mode on 
region-body is not consistent with XSL Formatters and is probably not 
consistent with the intent of the FO spec (but the jury's still 
out--I've submitted a query for clarification to the editors list but 
the WG has yet to take up the issue). This means that in certain layouts 
it may not be possible to have interoperable FO instances between XSL 
Formatter and XEP. This difference is compounded by a limition in XSL 
Formatter, which is that it cannot handle multi-page block-containers, 
so you can't use block-container as the child of a flow in order to set 
the writing mode for the entire flow, something I think you can do with 
XEP (but I haven't tested it).

Cheers,

E.
-- 
W. Eliot Kimber, eliot at isogen.com
Consultant, ISOGEN International

1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240
Austin, TX  78752 Phone: 512.656.4139

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