Why is it that Devanagari renders differently in Glyphs App, and in the rest of the OS, i.e. in TextEdit
http://s27.postimg.org/io626jsqb/glyphs.png
http://s27.postimg.org/l6rr78egj/textedit.png
It seems the ligatures aren’t showing properly? Despite generating the features.
Did you activate all the features? And Glyphs does not include a full OpenType shaping engine (e.g. it don’t do reordering). So to reliable test complex scripts we recommend Indesign http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/testing-your-fonts-in-adobe-apps/
I did, I realised it’s due to Glyphs not doing reordering, InDesign does not do this either…
Text Edit on OS X does however.
Indesign does reorder just fine for me. If you have a English or European version of Indesign, you need to manually activate the “World Ready Composer”. This is only possible by script, or by using a document that has it activated already. Here is a better explanation: http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/01/adobe-world-ready-composer/
World ready composer is built into indesign cs6 and later. But you still need to activate it.
World ready composer is available since CS4 as stated in the article I linked to.
My post was not clear, sorry. I meant that you only need to switch it on via a menu item in CS6, so no need for a script or prefabricated document.
You can also test using the Devanagari Version of the Testing Page, currently under construction at http://www.impallari.com/testing/devatest.php
Thank you Pablo.
I also found the way to employ World Ready Composer in a helpful guide here, http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2012/05/indesign-cs6-indic-support-and-preferences/
This was for InDesign CS6.