On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 13-5-2010 10:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >Nothing special, I always expect interline space to be fixed, I don't > >know if TeX always make interline spacing variable, but this wasn't an > >issue with English text. However, with Arabic, Tashkil marks seems to > >always cause a noticeable extra whitespace above the line. > >See the uneven distribution of vertical whitespace in this example (it > >can be even worse than this in reality): > > for arabic you really need to set the interline space (idris might > have more input on this) > > - it has more height than depth
Not always عٍ or فيٍ is as deep as high is أً. > - vowels add to the height of the line > - tex adds some interline space when lines touch -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
