On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Dear Ahmed, Mete, > > I think Ahmed is trying out to do it differently from what I did. If I > understood correctly, you are trying to create and application that > will highlight tajweed rule under gnome, right? > > What I idi is something very basic. I just create an html page so that > each character will have different colors, nothing to do with tajweed > rules. However, if we encode the text to correcpond to tajweed rules, > we will have the correct colors for it. > > Anyway, it only works under IE. I use the <span> tag for each > character. Under firefox, this will lead to the characters to take the > isolated forms only, thus not very usefull. I did not try it under > konq.
That's a bug in Mozilla that has been reported several times on bugzilla.mozilla.org. behdad > Regards. > > On 8/11/05, Mete Kural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ahmed, > > > > Meor might be able to provide some insight for you. He has been > > experimenting this feature with some rendering engines and I think Pango is > > one of them too. Meor, did you get the seperate coloring to work in Pango > > also or was it just uniscribe? > > > > Thanks, > > Mete > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > > From: Ahmed El-Helw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Development Discussions <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:44:56 -0400 > > > > >alsalam 3ala man itaba3 al huda - > > >hope everyone is doing well. i have been stuck for a while on this > > >issue > > >and was wondering if anyone could suggest how to get this to work. i am > > >trying to write a tajweed highlighting engine... in order to do so, i > > >need to > > >be able to color certain letters in an ayah a different color. > > > > > >the problem i am having is getting this to properly render in gtk. > > >i've tried two different approaches: > > > > > >1. making two identical TextTags with nothing differing except the > > >colors, > > >2. playing around with pango_parse_markup() and, for instance, > > >GtkLabels to > > > see if i could get anything to work. > > > > > >with the first, i had total failure - the letters would come out > > >separated [ie the shaping > > >would break]. > > > > > >with the second, it depends on what i did - if, for instance, i just > > >did color span of the > > >first half the string to be blue and that's it, it appeared to > > >perhaps work fine [i say it > > >"appeared to work fine" b/c at that size, its hard to really tell > > >whether they are two > > >separate letters or are connected to each other, but they seem > > >connected but am not > > >totally sure on that] -- but when i tried making the font larger, you > > >could clearly see shaping broken. > > > > > >i tried to email owen and ask him, and his response a few months ago > > >was that it was > > >working as far as he knew and if i could write a c demo showing it to > > >submit a bug to > > >bugzilla - i've done so recently and emailed him, but i take it he's > > >really busy and so > > >hasn't gotten a chance to write back. in addition, ppl on the gtk- > > >app-devel list didn't > > >answer either. > > > > > >if anyone can give me any sort of tip would be greatly appreciated. > > >thanks, > > >-ahmed > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mete Kural > > Touchtone Corporation > > 714-755-2810 > > -- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > > > --behdad http://behdad.org/
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