Thanks Roozbeh for lightening my TODO INBOX. More below:n On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote: > > > (Is it officially called faasileh-ye > > majaazi?? Who invented the term nim-faasileh?) > > "nim-faasele" is a typographers' term. The official ISIRI 6219 term > (borrowed from ISIRI 3342) is "faasele-ye majaazi". There are also people > suggesting "faasele-ye sefr". Oh, you're cheating Roozbeh, 6219 is not counted. > > I'm not 100% sure I understand here but it sounds like you're trying to > > introduce *language reform* here rather than type Persian. If there are > > ambiguities in the written language, that may not be something the word > > processor should delve into, IMHO :) > > I completely agree with you. Not a language reform in a high level, but a > very low-level orthography reform. The difference is not easily > recognizable by the herd, but it makes a big difference for text > processes. Well, to be exact, it's just about typography. I believe that you put this narrow space in handwriting. So what I want is only to type Persian, and the print it without adding markup. > > BTW, I noticed in later versions of Word they've gotten rid of ZWNJ and > > ZWJ in the special characters and now have "No-Width Optional Break" and > > "No-Width Non Break". Is this just a name change or what? They all seem to > > function in the same way. Any guesses as to why they've made this > > "improvement"? > > They are just playing with names to try to help new users. Someone > somewhere has guessed that the new names make more sense. But they are completely different things!!! Infact, joining and line breaking are somehow orthogonal. > > then I finally found ZWNJ and could commence typing but what a > > nightmarish hell I had to go through! > > How do you enter ZWNJ on your keyboard, BTW? I answer in his shoes: Hardly > > I lost a lot of friends in the process!! > > And acquired some new ones? ;) It's just the beginning, when you grow bigger and bigger, you will learn how to lose one other and another > roozbeh behdad -- Behdad Esfahbod 23 Aban 1381, 2002 Nov 14 http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code] #define is_persian_leap(y) ((((y)-474)%2820+2820)%2820*31%128<31) _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
