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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 30 04:33:09 +0000 2008 ------- yba->pueyo: There is indeed a dearth of OpenType Hebrew fonts with diacritics at this time. No one disagrees that at the present time this is a serious problem with Hebrew in OOo. However, this is an economic problem, not a software problem. It does not make sense to try to solve an economic problem by writing code, especially since there is no possibility of writing satisfactory code to solve what is in fact an esthetic problem. The appropriate technology to solve this problem is available in OpenType GPOS and GSUB together. Since I think that writing code to solve this problem is inappropriate, and that the resources to write and test that code should be spent on font enhancement, I do not agree that this is a feature enhancement, it's just adding cruft to OOo and delaying implementation of the correct solution. There have been many atttempts to write heuristics for Hebrew diacritic placement. I don't know of any of them that purport to be anything more than hacks or workarounds. As far as I know, only one of them was written since the publication of the OpenType standard. The best of these heuristics work only passibly well and only for diacritics below the line of the glyphs, not in or above the glyphs (CHOLAM, DAGESH), and they require fonts with an inordinate amount of space below the glyphs in order to trick the eye into thinking that the diacritics are placed correctly when in fact they are just centered below the glyph. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
