Hi Chris, Thanks very much for your message. At first glance it sounds like your problem might be font related, does the font in question validate properly in FontBook? Is it a TrueType or OpenType font?
Beyond this, it would be really helpful if you log a bug in bugzilla with a specific example (i.e. example page, screenshot on mac os x, screenshot on windows), that way we can track the issue and figure out a solution. Let me know if you have any questions about this or need any help. If you use IRC, the #bidi channel at irc.mozilla.org is where developers who work in this area hang out. Simon Montagu (smontagu) is probably the best person to chat with regarding this. He's based in Jerusalem, so you can probably chat with him first thing in your morning. Regards, John Daggett Mozilla Japan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Kimball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: 2007年11月16日 1時10分27秒 (GMT+0900) Asia/Tokyo Subject: Complex script rendering in Gran Paradiso/Firefox 3. I'm the transcriber of the Hebrew bible into Unicode/XML at http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml Hebrew text, a right-to-left text with complex markings, has terrible rendering problems. At present, Mac OS X is the only system on which Firefox doesn't yield satisfactory rendering. In fact, it doesn't even recognize the font. If someone knows a trick to get any version of Firefox rendering Hebrew on Mac OS X, I'd be glad to pass it on to site viewers. With Firefox 2 on Linux systems, improved rendering is obtainable by using Pango via export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1. Rendering is perfect on all Windows systems from 2000 and above. On Mac OS X recent pre-releases of Gran Paradiso recognize the required font, but the rendering is characteristic of not having Pango enabled. Is there a config or command line option that I can use to improve Hebrew text rendering on Gran Paradiso on Mac OS X? Thanks, Chris Kimball Redding, CT P.S. http://www.tanach.us/Fonts/FontTest.html shows examples of correct rendering. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
