most common script of urdu ..nastaleeq has the property that in some cases it grows vertically also. means like all other right to left language it grows from right to left and in addition to that position of some characters can grow it vertically too while remaining in same font size.
thats another complexity to it. On 11 Aug 2005 13:28:57 -0000, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Kazunari Hirano wrote : > [...] > >When you say Thai is CTL, how is Thai text layout complex? > >I don't see exactly what CTL means, what is complex. > >Thai, Oriya, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and so on are called CTL languages. > >Why are they called CTL? What are they complex about? > > Because their layout is complicated :-) Oriya involves a lot of > reordering of input characters, as well as substitution of glyphs > for sequences of input characters, and I believe Thai is also > similar. Urdu, and Arabic letters can change shapes depending on > their position in the word. > > Regards, > Gora >
