Re: Set Character Width Proposal (Version 3)

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert de Bath wrote:

> > All I do is to offer exact control over the width of ligatures,
> > otherwise SCW would be pointless for Indic, Arabic, etc.
> Ah now you've said what it's aimed at I'm going to read that section
> carefully. But from what I understand at the moment the required
> characters are already combining and this whouldn't add any more
> needed functionality.  Any Arabs or Indians in the house ?

For Arabic, there is the problem of "Lam-Alef" ligature being half-width
or double with. Those with a Arabic (language) background prefer it to be
double-width, but those with a Persian background prefer it to be
single-width.

--roozbeh

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