Re: [NTG-context] interlinespacing

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:07 PM 2/4/2003 -0700, Idris S Hamid wrote:

Dear Board,

It's going to take some work to come up with a test file for this
problem (since the font is not publically available), but let me
describe it anyway:

Arabic visually requires larger font sizes than roman, as well as wider
interline spacing, so Arabic insertions in Latin can create lines of
mixed interline spacing. Very strangely, this problem is more apparent
in itemize environments and the like than in regular text. Question: is
there a way to turn off interline spacing completely for my insertions
when necessary. Insertions are defined in terms of \startarabictext
\stoparabictext environments:

\definestartstop
  [arabictext]
  [commands=%
    {\osetarabdirtext % switches to RL mode
    \arabictextfont % switches to Arabic
    \vocalizeinsertdefault} % calls default otp list for vocalization
    ]

this should be a font characteristics (glyph boundingboxes smaller than normal.

\long\def\startarabictext#1\stoparabictext
{{\bfd\processisolatedwords{#1}\struttedbox}}
^^ otp switches

\long\def\arabictext#1{\startarabictext#1\stoparabictext}

\dorecurse{10}
{test test \startarabictext well o well\stoparabictext test }

i have no idea if this works well with arabic

Hans
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