In Hebrew Lyrics, frequently diacritic (diacritical marks) are not well aligned with the letter they should be attached to. In Hebrew they are called 'nikud' or 'niqud' and are used as vowels.
If posting this message via GMane will work, I will later attach a source example, and an 'commented image'. In that example, The Patah diacritic Unicode= U+05B7 : /afii57798 : HEBREW POINT PATAH http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=05B7 appears 3 times: + On the left side, it is slightly right to the (Kaf) letter + In the middle it looks well aligned below the (He) letter. + In the last right side it is almost detached - right to the side of the (Vav) letter, while it should have been below it. Since I am well experienced with C++ and gdb, though not in Pango and Guile, if someone can point me - where in the C++ code this offset is being determined, I may try help solve this issue. Note: In modern Hebrew text, diacritics are rarely used. But with music notation, they become essential especially for 'prima vista' singing. With the almost impossible mix of left-to-right music and natural right-to-left Hebrew, it is difficult in many cases to guess the right vowel without diacritical mark. This is because the natural right-to-left Hebrew context is lost. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
