From: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11860@debbugs.gnu.org, smias@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:03:26 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txvetb1d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wr0bdrwh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:53:34 +0300)
In article <83wr0bdrwh.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > By the way, it seems that "arial" font has better OTF GPOS feautre
> > for Arabic than the default font "courier new".
> >
> > Try to evaluate this on Windows:
> > (set-fontset-font t 'arabic (font-spec :family "arial" :size 30))
> > and see the position of upper vowels.
> It indeed looks nicer, but its base line is too high, IMHO, and thus
> the Arabic text looks awkward wrt surrounding Latin text, see the
> attached snapshot.
That's perhaps because of ":size 30". I specified it to
highlight the effect of GPOS. If you don't specify it, it
seems that the result looks better, though, of course, I'm
not an expert of typesetting Arabic-English mixed test.
BTW, typesetting multiple scripts with different fonts is
a difficult task.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org
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2012-07-04 9:17 bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear Steffan
2012-07-04 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-05 17:53 ` Steffan
2012-08-05 5:27 ` Steffan
2012-08-05 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-13 0:02 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-18 2:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-18 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 9:19 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-18 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 7:32 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-08-19 12:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-19 13:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-19 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 18:53 ` Werner LEMBERG
2012-08-20 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 3:02 ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19 13:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-19 16:16 ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 14:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-20 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-21 9:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-19 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 4:34 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-09-09 4:06 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-09-11 14:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-11 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-12 13:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-12 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-13 6:07 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-13 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-13 23:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-16 12:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-16 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-17 14:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-17 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-19 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-21 13:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-21 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-22 9:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-08-22 19:52 ` Steffan
2012-08-23 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-22 21:40 ` Steffan
2012-08-23 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-27 21:10 ` Steffan
2012-08-29 8:09 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-01 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 13:55 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-09-03 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-04 9:03 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2012-08-29 8:57 ` Steffan
2012-09-01 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 15:31 ` Steffan
2012-09-03 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-04 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 16:24 ` Steffan
2012-09-03 17:49 ` Steffan
2012-09-06 2:09 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-09-06 8:52 ` Steffan
2012-09-06 9:56 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-09-06 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-06 14:52 ` Steffan
2012-09-10 16:13 ` Steffan
2020-08-17 22:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 9:47 ` Stefan Kangas
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2012-07-05 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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