A solution with CGJ has been proposed, which is very general and can be applied to this and other such situations.
I get the impression that CGJ support is not very high on the list of things going to be implemented any time soon by the application developers that matter to us. I'm not saying this is right, only that it raises practical concerns about recommending this solution. Other control characters that have been around longer may not pose this problem, but may still require updates to existing Hebrew engines. I'm currently trying to figure out what works and what does not in the existing implementations. We're already recommending ZWNJ to inhibit meteg +hataf vowel ligation, but this has problems because the control character breaks the mark positioning lookups. I've yet to determine whether this is a fault in the font lookups, the shaping engine, particular apps or text services,
or something fundamental to the architecture.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sight of James Cox from the BBC's World at One,
interviewing Robin Oakley, CNN's man in Europe,
surrounded by a scrum of furiously scribbling print
journalists will stand for some time as the apogee of
media cannibalism.
- Emma Brockes, at the EU summit
