Shawn Landden shawnlandden at tuta dot io wrote:
Arabic ligitures have been deprecated[1], despite a need for both
ligitures and non-ligature versions of the same glyphs.
The only Arabic character that is deprecated in the standard is U+0673
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW. The
Please see this page: (for IE, use v 2010 and up)
http://lovatasinhala.com/
The font is almost all ligatures. If you copy and inspect the text, you'll
notice that it is simple romanized Singhala. I am currently in Sri Lanka
demonstrating this. The people at president's office and one of the
Andreas
Have you tried Mihail Bayaryn's Siddhanta font - (or his earlier
Chandas and Uttara fonts)?
http://svayambhava.org/index.php/en/fonts
This font supports many more vertical ligatures for Sanskrit than most
other Devanagri fonts.
- Chris
On 13/06/2013, Andreas Prilop apri...@freenet.de
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
-
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
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
Hi,
How is the placement of vowel marks around ligatures handled in Arabic text?
Does anyone have good pointers on this topic?
My guess is that this does not come up often (just like the topic of
pointing for handwritten Hebrew), as vowel marks are mostly not added in
ordinary text.
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