--- Mohammed Yousif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2004 18:56, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > > > > It's already there: > > > > 0305 COMBINING OVERLINE (=overscore) (connects on left and right) > > > > (it's used in Japanese) (used to be called non-spacing overscore) > > > > > > Does it really behave like the sajda line? > > > > M.Yousif, could you please test to see how this glyph behaves ? If it > > doesn't do what we think it should, we need to simply mention this problem > > in our proposal to get a reaction from unicode (ie. since we won't know > > how to specify it, we can simply mention the expected behavior we need). > > Just tried it on Qt, Gtk and MS-Windows giving varying results but > all of them are not what we expect. (for example they are fixed at > a Y-axis position that is usually not consistent with harakat so > it's not suitable for Arabic. Also, the implementations are even > making it a spacing character) I think what you mentioned, Nadim, > is the appropriate thing to do.
Mohammed, didn't we say we'd be happy with a Y-axis position specific glyph ? Meaning if the OVERLINE glyph was specified so that in the font file it was marked to be slightly higher than whatever the upper-bound of LAM + haraka.1 + haraka.2 is, wouldn't that work ? In other words assume LAM takes upto y-axis 80 and haraka.1 (say shadda) makes it now 90 and haraka.2 (say fatha) makes it 100, can't we specify this OVERLINE to always appear at say y-axis location 150 or similar ? If not, I'm not really sure what to ask for then - since I can only envision a y-axis specified solution (it will also need to be a combining character producing a ligature character akin to fatha). Do please tell me what to say in the proposal then to get it done ASAP. Salam. - Nadim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
