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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 20 10:23:10 -0700 2006 ------- The *only* way to have truly correct placement of nikud/vowel points/diacritics is to use an OpenType font, which is what OOo currently does. The old OOo used to use a heuristic method of positioning nikud/vowel points/diacritics by guesswork, which is prone to breakage. I think it does not work with multiple marks on a single consonant, for instance. The problem is that non-OpenType fonts only have glyphs for nikud, but no positioning information--this is why non-OpenType fonts are inadequate for proper Hebrew nikud support. The best that can be done with these fonts is to guess, which is at best completely inadequate for serious Hebrew word processing and publishing, and at worst completely broken for more complex rendering such as multiple marks on a consonant. To satisfy both needs (proper rendering on the one hand, and better rendering with non-OpenType fonts on the other hand), ICU could be patched to use the old heuristic method if the font used for rendering does not have OpenType tables (particularly the 'mark' and 'kern' GPOS tables). For someone who knows ICU, this would probably involve just a couple of lines in the right place to query the font for the existence of these GPOS tables. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
