Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: >> Thomas, >> Are you suggesting that the font is a tremendous improvement because >> the font does not have any ligature? This is a sincere questions, not >> to belittle you. I would like to share my experience in this regards. >> Although I'm neither a professional font developer nor expert in the >> field, I do find a problem with fonts without ligature. Of course , >> this can be solve, but need some consideration.
I am strongly in favour of ligatures, but against malfunctioning or incomplete ligatures. Hence my somewhat sarcastic comment. >> Actually, I've done some work on this to the extend that all typical >> ligature is replaced, and I would say the font I develop is good. The >> font does have more alternatives then just lam alef sequence. I've >> sent a screenshot of the font to Mete, and Gregg if I'm not mistaken. >> The positive point about it is that software will be able to display >> an individual glyph with different colors. Plus, this approach will >> definately works under Linux without any problems. So, that is the >> plus side. >> On the other hand, with this type of font, we will need some serious >> work when trying to justify a text /paragraph. Paul Nelson describe >> on Microsoft page that IE 5.5 supposedly have 3 mode for arabic >> justification: inter-word, tatweel and newspaper (if I'm not >> mistaken) >> Anyway, basically here's how the 3 mode should work: >> 1. Inter word: inserting spaces between words. This is the most >> typical type of justification for any script. >> 2. Tatweel : this is specific to arabic, and the most common method >> for arabic. >> 3. Newspaper : spaces inserted inter-word and some intra-word. I'm >> not >> so sure if tatweel is used. >> >> Anyway, that's the theory. When I try to use it (by using CSS), guess >> what? The inter-word key does not work! It still insert tatweel here >> and there. So, what is the problem? Just imagine a tatweel inserted >> between lam and alef ! That is just an example, althgouh they might >> be >> smart enough not to do that. Anyway, I can confirmed that tatweel >> will >> be inserted , and we can't really control it. So, maybe not for lam >> alef, but sequence like yeh reh will difinitely be effected. And is >> does look wierd. >> >> After I found this problem, I stop further improving the font. I hope >> this can be solved, but not sure how. Of course, this is not a major >> issue, bt I do not want to waste my time much on something that might >> not work. Just want to share my experience with people here. This is >> one of the reason why I mentioned before that I really would like to >> see people work seriously on Arabic justification problem. II would rather stay independent of OpenType and the MS approach and prefer to stick to my own technology. t
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