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bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appea
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Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:03:26 +0900 |
In article <83wr0bdrwh.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > By the way, it seems that "arial" font has better OTF GPOS feautre
> > for Arabic than the default font "courier new".
> >
> > Try to evaluate this on Windows:
> > (set-fontset-font t 'arabic (font-spec :family "arial" :size 30))
> > and see the position of upper vowels.
> It indeed looks nicer, but its base line is too high, IMHO, and thus
> the Arabic text looks awkward wrt surrounding Latin text, see the
> attached snapshot.
That's perhaps because of ":size 30". I specified it to
highlight the effect of GPOS. If you don't specify it, it
seems that the result looks better, though, of course, I'm
not an expert of typesetting Arabic-English mixed test.
BTW, typesetting multiple scripts with different fonts is
a difficult task.
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Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/01
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/01
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/06