https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30326
--- Comment #26 from Volker Haas <[email protected]> 2011-08-18 12:48:58 UTC --- Italic: If freefarsi can't be used that's fine with me, but: I can't get italic to work if I use the Nazli font. The browser might render a non-italic font in an italic way - the render engine I am using to produce PDFs can't do that. => I need a font including all its variants (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic). Everything that is missing will be rendered using the regular font. Something completely different: The direction of the text is sometimes broken. This happens if pretty much anything except plain text is used in conjunction with LRT text when the base direction is RTL. Example: C<sub>50</sub>H<sub>70</sub>... (as you pointed out Reza) or an even more fun example: '''توسط word one''' word two - همکاری I can't fix this. Not today, and not anywhere in the near future. If this is supposed to be fixed I need to switch the underlying PDF render engine. Since there is no real alternative to what we use now (reportlab) this is even more complicated. Therefore I am guessing that changing the render engine would take at least 6 months. Unfortunately this is completely out of scope at the moment. If the text direction problem I just described is a show stopper for right-to-left languages than we can stop now. If the problem does not occur too often and is acceptable we can go on. The third alternative is swapping the rendering engine, but a sponsor for 6 months of work would need to be found ;) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
