--- Mohammed Yousif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 21:59, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > Mohammed, didn't we say we'd be happy with a Y-axis position specific > > glyph ? Meaning if the OVERLINE glyph was specified so that in the > > font file it was marked to be slightly higher than whatever the > > upper-bound of LAM + haraka.1 + haraka.2 is, > > No, it doesn't do that. It's not expected for it to be used with Arabic > diacritics at all. The current behavior with tashkil is really bad, it's > sometimes lower and sometimes higher than tashkil depending on the height > of the arabic letter. > > Another thing is the lam alef with floating hamza thing, it's a ligature > like lam alef and we need someway to be able to put harakat on the lam > or on the alef and they need to be drawn appropriately. > > I'm thinking of telling Unicode that we want lam with 0675 to produce our > proposed ligature (lam alef with floating hamza), that way we can overcome > the tashkil problem with the ligature (What tashkil belongs to lam/and what > belongs to the alef) so it can be drawn properly. > So, instead of encoding the Qur'an using the ligature directly, we instead > use 0644 + 0675 and put the harakat correctly.
OK, I think I captured what you note above in the proposal. http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/tmp/qu_prop.pdf Do please give it a careful read and report back any issues. If the doc still makes sense :-) and is clear enough to follow, we are ready to submit it. I believe there are NO other issues that require Unicode's attention with regard to this matter, is that correct ? Salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25� http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
