Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:32:13PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:45:10 -0600, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Khaled Hosny wrote: >>>> Using Luatex engine, ZWNJ and ZWJ chars are rendered incorrectly. If the >>>> font has a glyph for it, it does the expected behaviour (force >>>> non-joining or joining respectively) but the glyph get rendered while it >>>> shouldn't. But if the font has no glyphs for it, it has no effect at >>>> all. See the attached example. >>> i uploaded a beta >>> >>> after analyzing i now remove the joiners >> Not sure if this is the best approach: >> >> Despite what MS Typography says, I think it's important to maintain the >> joiner info after analysis. If I select text from a pdf, the joiner info >> should be there. This is important for, eg, switching from Arabic-language >> to Farsi-language typography. So If I select some pdf text formatted >> according to Farsi rules, I should be able to save that text with the >> rules included. >> >> Can this be made an option, so fonts that contain zwj zwnj are not >> affected? > > Well, I've very little ConTeXt knowledge to actually understand this. My > main point was that non-printable formatting characters like ZWNJ, ZWJ > should be font independent i.e. when I insert a ZWNJ it inhibits the > joining of Arabic letters without being printed, the font having or not > having a glyph for it shouldn't affect this. In the other hand, it > should be their so that when I copy the text I get it (since it is part > of the input and has semantical value). > > Is this what we have here?
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