BaseScriptList Table

The BaseScriptList table identifies all scripts in the font that are rendered in the same layout direction. If a script is not listed here, then the text-processing client will render the script using the layout information specified for the entire font.

For each script listed in the BaseScriptList table, a BaseScriptRecord must be defined that identifies the script and references its layout data. BaseScriptRecords are stored in the BaseScriptRecord array, ordered alphabetically by the BaseScriptTag in each record. The BaseScriptCount specifies the total number of BaseScriptRecords in the array.

Example 1 at the end of this chapter shows a sample BaseScriptList table.

BaseScriptList table

Type

Name

Description

uint16

BaseScriptCount

Number of BaseScriptRecords defined

struct

BaseScriptRecord

Array of BaseScriptRecords

 

[BaseScriptCount]

—in alphabetical order by BaseScriptTag