On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:09:31PM -0700, Stephan Stiller wrote:
Hi,
How is the placement of vowel marks around ligatures handled in Arabic text?
OpenType has special support for placing non combining marks over
ligatures (a subset of the general support for controlling the placement
of
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:09:31 -0700
Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
How is the placement of vowel marks around ligatures handled in
Arabic text?
For OpenType the clue lies in the three types of GPOS
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gpos.htm) lookup for marks
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Thank you, خالد and Richard.
there is only one Indic mark I can think of for which
the issue of component association arises, and that is the nukta
That is good to know, given the complexity of the Indic scripts.
Other thoughts:
* One could simply break up Arabic ligatures in need of
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Stephan Stiller wrote:
How is the placement of vowel marks around ligatures
handled in Arabic text?
I'm also wondering how font designers normally handle this.
Older fonts in older operating systems (like Windows XP)
often failed. See
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Richard Wordingham wrote:
While the same principle applies to Indic scripts (and indeed, to the
Roman alphabet), there is only one Indic mark I can think of for which
the issue of component association arises, and that is the nukta.
Sanskrit requires candrabindu U+0901
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