On Friday 14 May 2004 14:39, ahmad khalifa wrote: > > abdulhaq, Ossama Khayat didnt see the arabic text, if you dont mind > can you also test to confirm this problem ?
I'll have a look over the weekend in shaa' allaah > > if you mean ligature LAM+ALEF, well, the LAA is put inplace of the LAM > and a space is put inplace of the ALEF. that could be easily fixed in CUPS, > not like PuTTY where it needed a lot of hacks. > yes, I've been cursed by thinking of arabic in transliteration before learning it properly - years later I still sometimes read things in my head from left-to-right instead of right-to-left. If any arabic learners are reading this, NEVER use transliteration! I think that once the monspaced font has been found that this extra space will be a problem as it might lead to misread words (laa + shay'an instead of the actual word [transliteration - there I go again]). > > the problem with harakat is that they're treated as single space chars, not > 'NSM' or that they should ride the previous char. > in CUPS (unlike PuTTY) this can also be easily fixed > i asked the CUPS guy, and he said there is no plan for composing chars in > CUPS-1.2. i think the points that need fixing/extending are > > 1. the character structure (lchar_t) should contain a pointer to a list > of composing chars. [filter/textcommon.h] > 2. the input loop should fill the pointer in one with the composing chars > as it finds them. it needs to know which are composing chars. > [filter/textcommon.c] > 3. the postscript output loop should also check the pointer in 1. > [filter/texttops.c] > > ---the above is for logging, in case i dont get to it !! > In my python program I did nothing special in my character stream to make the harakaat appear over the previous character, it just happened. I assumed that it was a feature of the font marking the fatHa etc as a diactrical mark. Is this not the case then? wassalaam abdulhaq _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
