Hi Meor, I am working on a solution outside OT and all that. I'll keep you guys posted.
Salaam, t Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Tom, > I'm not sure it's OpenType (the spec) fault, or it's implementation > (uniscribe, pango) fault, or it might just be plain VOLT fault. I > think the problem lies between VOLT (the software the generate > opentype table) to Uniscribe/OTLS implementation. OpenType , the spec > is not the problem. Anyway, I've to admit, last time I did not test it > on Linux when the problems occurs, so not sure how it behaves. I only > test it after it works under windows (which still have some problems > under Linux). > I might be able to eliminate all of the problem by creating the > OpenType table (GSUB mostly) by hand and recompile it using TTX, but > that will take a lot of my time (unless I can work full time on it, I > might do it). I still think that somehow VOLT produces a buggy GSUB > table, but difficult to prove it. > > Regards. > > > On 9/20/05, Thomas Milo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Meor, >> >> I suppose you are discussing flaws of OpenType? >> >> t >> >> >> Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: >>> Mete, >>> Last time I tried, I did have problems to make it work in both >>> situation. If I were to make it work for the lam alef with floating >>> hamza, it does not work in the second case. If I were to make it >>> work for the second case, the first case does not work. That's why >>> in the text, for the first case it was encode as lam hamza alef, >>> whereby the second case was encoded with tatweel hamza above . This >>> is just to make it visually correct. There might be a way to >>> accomplish this, but we might need some help from experts it this >>> (maybe from MS). This is becasue I'm not sure why it does not work; >>> It should have been. There might be a bug somewhere (not sure >>> where). >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> On 9/20/05, Mete Kural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hello Meor, >>>> >>>> Were you successful in getting U+0621 to render correctly in words >>>> like al-aakhira in aya 2:4 and ya'aadamu in aya 2:33 with the new >>>> font you're developing in both Windows and Linux? Can you use >>>> U+0621 in al-aakhira and have your font render it correctly or >>>> does Uniscribe and Pango not allow you to do that? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Mete >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mete Kural >>>> Touchtone Corporation >>>> 714-755-2810 >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> General mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> General mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
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