From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Yair F <yair.f.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:51:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl7hbki48zt.fsf@m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil7SZlvtMBLmfz3DG_wHKKki72LwSIITx53w0tf@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yair F on Thu, 1 Jul 2010 23:30:17 +0300)
In article <AANLkTil7SZlvtMBLmfz3DG_wHKKki72LwSIITx53w0tf@mail.gmail.com>, Yair F <yair.f.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:
> > All those are glyph positioning problems and can be improved
> >by adding more code to hebrew-shape-gstring.
> What else problem do you expect?
Sorry, I just misread what you wrote "I would say that the
positioning is not sufficient" as "there should be more work
other than positioning".
> >I think it's a dirty &
> > ad-hoc hack.
> >
> > Theoretically, it is possible to do the same thing in the
> > function hebrew-shape-gstring. But, is it really worth
> > doing that? Isn't it enough to tell Hebrew users to use
> > properly desinged OpenType fonts?
> The sad answer on free systems is that there are nealy no such fonts.
> The common answer for "Why is Hebrew so ugly on Linux?" is "Install
> Culmus and msttcorefonts".
> I guess that is the reason for the twaks you mentioned.
Sign...
> An additional and possibly less ugly path is to use presentation forms
> when available.(UFB20) There are additional forms in the private use
> area.
Hmmm, that seems to be a practical approach provided that
the presentation forms covers most of frequently used
character combinations. I'll try to implement it.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
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2010-06-15 11:02 ` Composing Hebrew diacriticals Kenichi Handa
2010-06-24 6:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-06-25 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-28 16:40 ` Yair F
2010-06-29 8:07 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-06-29 18:57 ` Yair F
2010-06-30 5:27 ` Kenichi Handa
[not found] ` <AANLkTim3sQzyJ4YQkOzfRHCFhztgLG-CA2vlM84lbwoq@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-30 21:48 ` Fwd: " Yair F
2010-07-01 5:59 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-01 5:52 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-07-01 20:30 ` Yair F
2010-07-02 7:51 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2010-07-12 8:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-07-12 21:10 ` Yair F
2010-07-13 4:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-07-13 4:47 ` Yair F
2010-07-13 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-30 12:29 Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-05 2:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-05 15:49 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-05 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-06 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-06 0:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-06 12:14 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-06 13:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-05 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-07 11:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-08 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-06 14:59 ` Yair F.
2010-05-06 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-07 0:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-07 4:41 ` Yair F
2010-05-07 6:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-07 10:00 ` Yair F
2010-05-07 11:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-07 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-10 14:09 ` Yair F
2010-05-11 0:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-11 12:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-11 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-12 8:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-12 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-12 19:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-13 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-13 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-14 8:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-14 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-14 11:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-14 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-14 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <AANLkTilcNB_ntRY_EVS9EyMrqS3GRAp3rHGiXL_3YZuR@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-15 2:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-15 21:35 ` Yair F
2010-05-17 4:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-17 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-18 0:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-17 21:08 ` Yair F
2010-05-20 2:09 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-25 1:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-25 20:56 ` Yair F
2010-05-26 0:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-26 4:37 ` Yair F
2010-05-26 6:00 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-26 16:12 ` Yair F
2010-05-27 7:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-27 21:59 ` Yair F
2010-05-28 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-06-01 8:58 ` Yair F
2010-05-18 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-17 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-19 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-11 21:40 ` Yair F
2010-05-12 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-12 15:11 ` Yair F
2010-05-12 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-12 22:01 ` Yair F
2010-05-13 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-13 19:46 ` Yair F
2010-05-13 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-13 20:08 ` Yair F
2010-05-14 2:35 ` Miles Bader
2010-05-14 10:45 ` Yair F
2010-05-14 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-14 13:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-05-15 0:46 ` Miles Bader
2010-05-13 0:29 ` Kenichi Handa
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