Help with rendering devanagari.

[Manjunath Sripadarao <manju paqrat com>]

Hi,
  I am using pfaedit to create a devanagari font. I have made some 
anchor classes in it to render the half forms at the right place. But 
pango seems to ignore the anchors completely and renders them as they are.

1. The character combinations work prefectly well in pfaedit (when I do 
view -> combinations -> anchored pairs). But I am trying to render them 
in abiword (or gedit even) and it doesn't work. I am using pango-1.2.1-3 
on redhat 9.

2. Is there any particular standards an opentype font must follow for 
devanagari ? That is in terms of anchor classes etc., I see that even
for fonts like raghindi (raghu.ttf) pango does not honour the anchor 
classes ?

3. If there an developers involved with devanagari I would like to know 
how they test the rendering of devanagari ? And what font they
use as reference ?

  For reference I am putting up the source file at 
http://www.ece.uic.edu/~msripada/dvng10a.sfd.bz2  the TrueType version 
at http://www.ece.uic.edu/~msripada/Devanagari.ttf  and the OpenType 
version at http://www.ece.uic.edu/~msripada/Devanagari.otf . And also
http://www.ece.uic.edu/~msripada/Devanagari.ttf.bz2 
<http://www.ece.uic.edu/%7Emsripada/Devanagari.ttf.bz2>.

   The main combination for the last font (Devanagari.ttf.bz2) is ka 
(0x915 + 0x947).

The combinations
a. 0x0915 + 0x094D
b. 0x0916 + 0x094D
c. 0x0917 + 0x094D
d. 0x0918 + 0x094D
....

Thanks,
Manju