Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

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

Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

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

Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

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

RE: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

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

Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

or (important case) 1b) the rendering system uses a transform to get the mirrored glyph. While (1) is preferred (a simple geometric transform may not be the optimal mesh with the design of the rest of the characters), (1a) is far better than (2). Mark — Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For