Munzir Taha wrote:
>
>Third, I am still searching for the right font but can't find it yet. Can
>you help me?
>
I was looking at some old type book, specifically at the Linotype Pi
characters catalog, and they apparently had an "Arabic Maths Pi" family
with two fonts. Those fonts have mirorred
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> This raises a question in my mind: how is an app to know whether the layout
> engine+font are smart enough? ...
> In other words, it seems to me that it must be agreed that an
> app should assume it is handled by Uniscribe/OT, or should assume that it
> is not.
Yes, I
Eric Muller wrote:
> I believe that the current mirrored and mirrored glyph properties are
> useful only when no help can be obtained from the font; otherwise, the
> resolved directionality should be provided to the font, which should
> then select the appropriate shape for each and every char
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> Eric Muller wrote:
> > Munzir Taha wrote:
> >
> > >Second, why then Unicode choose some cha
Eric Muller wrote:
> Munzir Taha wrote:
>
> >Second, why then Unicode choose some characters like
> parantheses to have two
> >glyphs whereas others like sqrt haven't. What's the point?
There is a misunderstanding here: the square root character *does* have the
mirrored property, just like pare
Munzir Taha wrote:
>Second, why then Unicode choose some characters like parantheses to have two
>glyphs whereas others like sqrt haven't. What's the point?
>
I think of the mirrored stuff as: "We (Unicode) do not want to encode
separate characters for ltr and rtl contexts (just like we do not e
First, a word of thank to the generous help I've found on this mailing list.
Thanks Marco for the nice demonstration.
Second, why then Unicode choose some characters like parantheses to have two
glyphs whereas others like sqrt haven't. What's the point?
Third, I am still searching for the right fo
Eric Muller wrote:
> [...] what makes the selection of a shape appropriate for
> rtl or ltr context any different? in particular, why
> should we rule out the use of an alternate shape for A
> based on the directionality?
This is particularly relevant for alphabets (such as Old Italic or Greek)
John Hudson wrote:
> It might be a good idea if someone explained to us font designers
> exactly what is required of us. Some mirrored forms such as the
> parentheses, are being handled in character processing, not glyph
> processing, and I have yet to see any set of requirements (e.g. in
> M
Munzir Taha wrote:
> > No: common characters, such as parentheses or double quotes
> are supported
> > even on my system. So, the mechanism is already in place on
> many systems.
>
> Please, execuse me but I need more explanation in this issue.
> When I need to enter parentheses or double quot
At 23:44 3/27/2002, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>That's what's supposed to happen, when system and font designers correctly
>implement the mirrored glyphs.
It might be a good idea if someone explained to us font designers exactly
what is required of us. Some mirrored forms such as the parentheses, ar
At 01:01 AM 3/28/02 +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
>I thought first that this mirror
>property means I just insert one symbol in any application and by changing
>the direction dir=rtl for example in FrontPage, I get the mirrored
>one
That's what's supposed to happen, when system and font designers cor
> No: common characters, such as parentheses or double quotes are supported
> even on my system. So, the mechanism is already in place on many systems.
Please, execuse me but I need more explanation in this issue. When I need to
enter parentheses or double quotes, I find two different symbols. Do
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