I'll be anxious to test any such changes! Thanks, Ron
On Mar 28, 12:41 am, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/26 Ron Aaron: > > > > > The strange thing is that the fonts *do* have Hebrew characters, but > > it may be > > that they are not tagged in such a way that OS/X can extract the > > correct > > glyphs. For example, the monospace font "Miriam Fixed" has Hebrew > > characters, > > as does "Courier New" (from MS) - but neither seems to be able to be > > used in > > MacVim for Hebrew, nor "Web Hebrew Monospace" nor "SBL Hebrew". But > > the > > non-monospace "Ezra SIL" works, as does "David MF" and various others > > (all > > non-monospace :( ) > > Yeah, I don't understand this either. The Cocoa font system is very > much like a black box (at least to me) -- it is hard to get any > control over aspects such as font substitution. There is probably > some way to "massage" the font files to get this to work but I have no > idea where you find information on this. > > >> It would be very helpful if you could send me a file on which you can > >> reproduce all of these issues so that I can try it out myself. > > > I have a set of two files: one with just the base characters and one > > with > > combining (niqud) characters. You can get the file here: > > > http://ronware.org/vim-hebrew.zip > > Thanks, I see the problem now. I am aware that composing characters > are problematic and I am not sure how easy it will be to fix with the > default and ATSUI renderers. Still, I will take another look to > refresh my memory (and it is good to have some example file to work on > as a test). > > Failing that there is much more hope for the half-finished CoreText > renderer I have yet to finish and push to the repo -- I am confident > that I can get composing characters working properly with it. So, I > might take another look at that as well. Anyway, I'll post again when > I have something more to say on this. > > Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
