Hi,
When using Mnemonic transliteration, that one produces
already shaped characters.

Mnemonic &b;
========
Glyph info: medial FE92 [0628]

FE92 - shaped - original text
0628 - plain - [not in original text, but possible]

Characters that come already shaped in the original are
not re-shaped in the editor.

Arabic kmap b
=============

Glyph info: [isolated FE8F] 0628

isolated FE8F - the currently used presentation form
0628 - the original character.

isolated FE8F changes with context. (medial: FE92 initial: FE91).

Conversion
==========
If you happend to have an already shaped file, don't lose hope :)
The 'deshape' converter  can read it de-shaped. There is
also an 'shape' converter - these converter are mostly for
uniconv.

Unfortunatelly 2.5.beta4 has a bug, be sure to apply:
  http://www.yudit.org/download/yudit-2.5.beta4.patch1.txt
when using deshape converter. beta5, will have this patch.

Composed characters appearing separatelly
=========================================

In shaping two characters can share the same box,
similarily to composing characters but without overstrike.

When two characters that should share the same box, are entered
separatelly, they will put in separate boxes  in order to retain
undo functionality. Shaping algorithm is applied to these boxes.
To force them into one box, two things are possible:

- use a keymap that produces a character series, i.e. output two
 or more characters, to form a single box. The current Arabic.kmap
 produces only single characters.
- cut&paste
- save/reload.

Cheers
gaspar


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Kaixo!
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Karl Koehler wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Gaspar Sinai wrote:
> > [ .. ]
> > > * shaping (Arabic) support.
> > >
> > > Please bang on it. I consider it pretty much finished.
> > Ok, here goes...
> > - While I write a text, it seems to shape. But:
>
> How do you do that ?
> I compiled the beta and tried it (I typed trough mnemonic transliteration,
> eg: b+;a+;b+;l+;+w; ) but I didn't saw any shaping at all.
>
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