I just found a temporary work around after I noticed that the word seems to 
be scrunching up after typing a letter following the letter 'raa' - ر .  

I typed:  حَضرَ  for part of a word and after I added the next letter after 
'raa' ر , is when it pushed the preceding letters of the word, to the far 
right.  So I added a space after 'raa'  ر , and then typed the rest of the 
word [ تُكَ ] and then deleted the space between the raa and the taa and it 
seemed to work and looks fine.  

I then tried the same technique of adding a space after the letter 'raa' in 
the other word 'marHabaa', and then deleted it to see if it would align 
correctly, but it did not.  For the time being, I will have to leave a 
space in the middle of the word 'marHabaa' so it is readable, instead of 
scrunched up, although it is technically incorrect.

I * think * the letter following 'raa' needs to have a diacritic to anchor 
preceeding letters in place, but unsure at this moment.  

I will update this thread with other observations and examples, for others 
who also work with an Arabic based font.           

On Sunday, September 30, 2012 10:51:05 AM UTC-4, Ayesha Nicole wrote:
>
> Thank you.  How do I contact the Qt4 developer to let them know about this 
> issue, please, so they can hopefully fix it?  I googled Qt4 and have no 
> idea what I am looking for.  :S  And what do I tell them exactly, because I 
> am only an end user and not a programmar - unsure what Qt4 and GUI are and 
> how Mnemosyne and Anki use them?     
>
> I am currently making flashcards for Alif Baa 3e, and on Unit 2 (of 10); 
> and once completed over the next week, I will work on al-Kitaab 3e, Part 1. 
>  I am concerned this issue will occur more frequently as I make more 
> complex cards for couplets, phrases, and sentences.  
>
> A longer term project I am working on involves creating flashcards for 
> each and every word in the Qur'aan (which has 604 pages worth of words!), 
> along with a soundclip (that are being professionally recorded).  It would 
> basically be one word per card, with the 'Question' as Arabic text copied 
> from a MS-Word document with the KFGQPC Hafs script (based on handwritten 
> calligraphy) from, along with a soundclip:  
>
>
> King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex, released "Quranic Font" with 
> complete typed Data of Quran in MS Word file.
>
> Its free Unicode based OTF Font, and complete typed Data you can 
> distribute and forward it to anyone. Website link is;
> http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/ 
>
> For Direct Download OTF font Link
>
> http://fonts.qurancomplex-dev.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/UthmanicHafs1-Ver08.zip
>  
>
> For Direct Download Word Data file
>
> http://fonts.qurancomplex-dev.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Complete-Ver08.zip
>  
>
>
>
> [I just realized the above site 'has been suspended' which I am certain is 
> temporary and will be back online soon.  I will contact a colleague who 
> works there and find out more about it, because I will need to download the 
> latest font version and document than that from above.]
>
> And the 'answer' side of the card would contain the information for each 
> word as seen below (the image, and pronunciation in transliteration, 
> translation, and grammatical information, with a tag of the numbers with 
> colons between them indicating the location of the word in the Surah and 
> ayah, and perhaps I will also add the page number for each word, which is 
> not listed here:
> http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp
>
> I also was given some general information about how to import from the 
> data source:  http://corpus.quran.com/download/ into Anki, and wonder how 
> would I import it into Mnemosyne?    
>
> Please let me know how to contact the developer of Qt4 because it is 
> important for me, that this bug to resolved as soon as possible.  
>
> Thank you again.
>
> On Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:58:38 AM UTC-4, Peter Bienstman wrote:
>>
>> I think Mnemosyne uses a later version of Qt than Anki, so I guess it's a 
>> Qt bug in the recent version.
>>
>> Again, It's not something Mnemosyne can do anything about, I'm afraid...
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Saturday, 29 September 2012 15:00:43 UTC+2, Ayesha Nicole wrote:
>>>
>>> I am unsure.  I had another scrunched up word after typing it out and 
>>> remembered that for the exact same word, the something similar occured in 
>>> Anki in the 'editing' section, but it displayed almost perfectly in the 
>>> preview/review - it just had a small space between two letters that should 
>>> have been seamlessly joined, but it is a minor issue.
>>>
>>> And in Mnemosyne, it is not displaying correctly in either editing or 
>>> preview/review screens.
>>>
>>> Screen shots are attached for both SRS that may be helpful for you?  
>>>
>>> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 1:31:57 AM UTC-4, Peter Bienstman wrote:
>>>
>>>> It might be related to copy and paste, but if it is, it's possible   
>>>> that it only displays scrunched up right after pasting, and not when   
>>>> the card is actually reviewed. That's an issue I still need to solve. 
>>>>
>>>> Peter 
>>>>
>>>> Quoting Ayesha Nicole <[email protected]>: 
>>>>
>>>> > Just an update - I created another card with the exact same phrase 
>>>> (one for 
>>>> > each:  MSA, ECA, LCA), and typed each word out, and it seems to 
>>>> display 
>>>> > alright now; I wonder if I copied and pasted the scrunched up one? 
>>>>  Unsure. 
>>>> >  But it seems to be working for now.  Thanks! 
>>>> > 
>>>> > On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:50:17 PM UTC-4, Ayesha Nicole wrote: 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> Hmmm.  This is strange and I am confused.  For the word cards with 
>>>> 'as 
>>>> >> salaamu 'alaikum' in Arabic, it formats fine as 2 words (attached). 
>>>>  And I 
>>>> >> will try some more couplets (2 words) and phrases (3+ words) and see 
>>>> what 
>>>> >> happens.  And it is also puzzling because I was able to use this 
>>>> >> specialized font in Anki, but setting up the format (html code) is 
>>>> not 
>>>> >> going to work for me - I prefer formatting buttons and drop down 
>>>> menus. 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> I even tried other Arabic fonts (such as the standard Microsoft Word 
>>>> >> packaged font for Arabic called 'Arabic Typesetting') and have the 
>>>> same 
>>>> >> results as the first attachment.  I could use Arial for Arabic, but 
>>>> the 
>>>> >> script is not as nice in appearance, in my opinion.   Maybe I will 
>>>> just 
>>>> >> create a card type for this particular phrase using Arial font, 
>>>> until I 
>>>> >> figure out what is causing it? 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> On Friday, September 28, 2012 10:46:18 AM UTC-4, Peter Bienstman 
>>>> wrote: 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> I'm afraid this is not something Mnemosyne has direct control over: 
>>>> font 
>>>> >>> rendering is handled by the GUI library we use (Qt4, same as Anki 
>>>> BTW). 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> So, this is probably a bug in Qt. Perhaps you can try with a 
>>>> different 
>>>> >>> font. (I use Arial for arabic, and don't see any issues, apart from 
>>>> the 
>>>> >>> kasra being difficult to see) 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> Peter 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> On 09/28/2012 04:32 PM, Ayesha Nicole wrote: 
>>>> >>> > Hi there! 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > I am unsure why the Arabic text is scrunched up for a phrase? 
>>>>  And I 
>>>> >>> > thought I fixed it by checking the card type with the foreign 
>>>> word font 
>>>> >>> > as KFGQPC Nashk at 72 pt. and writing system set to Arabic.  The 
>>>> set up 
>>>> >>> > of the card displays it properly in the field, but not in preview 
>>>> or 
>>>> >>> > when reviewing.  I attached screen shots. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > What do you advise, please? 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > Thank you. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > Ayesha 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:31:17 AM UTC-4, Ayesha Nicole 
>>>> wrote: 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >     Thank you - again!  I cannot tell you how refreshing this 
>>>> >>> experience 
>>>> >>> >     has been for me, especially after literally fighting with 
>>>> Anki 2, 
>>>> >>> >     which makes SM15 easier by comparison, but still overwhelming 
>>>> with 
>>>> >>> a 
>>>> >>> >     very complex interface. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >     Mnemosyne is/truly/ simple and easy to use!  :D  Now I can 
>>>> focus on 
>>>> >>> >     actually learning, instead of studying code to achieve very 
>>>> basic 
>>>> >>> >     'formatting' appearance of the cards! 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >     On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Peter Bienstman 
>>>> >>> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         On 09/24/2012 09:55 PM, Ayesha Nicole M Beavers wrote: 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >             Thank you!  It works so beautifully and easily! 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         You're welcome :-) For Mnemosyne, we really try to focus 
>>>> on an 
>>>> >>> >         elegant and easy-to-use workflow, without sacrificing 
>>>> >>> flexibility. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >             I was happy to see that Mnemosyne is based on SM11 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         It's SM2, actually, but I'm not sure SM11 is a much 
>>>> better 
>>>> >>> >         scheduler than SM2. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >             is there a way to customize the text color of words 
>>>> on 
>>>> >>> >             individual cards? 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         The easiest option would be to clone several card types 
>>>> from 
>>>> >>> >         Vocabulary, e.g. MSA, Egyptian, etc... and then you can 
>>>> colour 
>>>> >>> >         each of them as you want. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >             And is there an app (I have an iPhone) to synch with 
>>>> the 
>>>> >>> >             desktop version 
>>>> >>> >             for studying on the go? 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         An off-line mobile client is on the todo list, but 
>>>> meanwhile 
>>>> >>> you 
>>>> >>> >         can do your mobile reviews in a browser. Just start the 
>>>> bundled 
>>>> >>> >         'mnemosyne-webserver' application, which will tell you 
>>>> where to 
>>>> >>> >         point your browser. Sound support for webserver reviews 
>>>> is 
>>>> >>> still 
>>>> >>> >         a bit shaky, though. 
>>>> >>> > 
>>>> >>> >         Peter 
>>>> >>> > 
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