To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93535 Issue #|93535 Summary|Character spacing/jumbling with Semitic Early font Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.4.1 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Windows, all Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|viewing Assigned to|mru Reported by|harveyab
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 6 07:48:50 +0000 2008 ------- Using any of the fonts (Semitic Early, Semitic Middle, Semitic Late or Semitic Modern) from http://www.ancient-hebrew.org the character spacing can be wrong. Of coarse, one would suspect the fonts, but they display correctly in Word97, so there does seem to be an issue with OOo Writer. The issue is more complicated in that these fonts each have a set of glyphs that are mapped as the normal ASCII alphabet 0041-005A and 0061-007A, and also to the Unicode (custom area I think) F041-F05A and F061-F07A. As far as I can tell the font file simply maps the two sets to the same glyphs. When the 00xx mapping set is used the spacing is correct. When the F0xx map set is used however, the problem is seen. The character spacing is then incorrect with the characters either being spaced far apart or jumbled together overlapping each other (or both). I wrote a macro to remap the characters up by bitwise oring the characters with F000 or down by anding with 00ff. The same characters are displayed but they are spaced incorrectly in the F0xx set. They are displayed correctly in Word97, although for some unknown reason, when I copy either kind to Word97 they all come in mapped as the F0xx set. Even if I type "ABC" in Arial and then change the font to Semitic Early, Word97 changes the mapping up to the F0xx set (could someone tell me why). At any rate they look correct in Word 97, but then opening that file in OOo Writer, they are incorrect. I have a screen shot and the macros if someone wants to see, e-mail me: harveyab"AT"juno.com. (I don't know how to attach here.) Jeff Benner at the above web site has an Ancient Hebrew Lexicon on his site in Word format, that looks quite bad in OOo Writer because of this. harveyab --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
