From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:06:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130826180629.GV18239@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHVY6TOD15_u1zMypQq_Eu1bNq6Am2bTs7ewRdiCCKdNKO7YJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2013–08–26 J. R. Schmid wrote:
> I've played around with your module and ran into some problems
> which may have been due to my inexperiencedness with ConTeXt
> (rupturing of ligatures, at least with Scheherazade and
> inconsistent line height). Marco has been helping me though, and
> it looks like he solved those problems while improving on your
> module while doing so. He doesn't seem to be done with it yet and
> perhaps he'll want to reply himself when he is, so I'll leave it
> at that for now :-)
I don't do any Arabic typesetting myself, but I wrapped Idris' idea
into a nicer interface¹. Since I don't use it myself, I'll leave it
like that until I receive feedback or improvement suggestions.
There's no documentation yet, as I don't know how useful this is in
the first place.
In contrast to Latin script, justifying Arabic text is not solely
achieved by varying the inter-word space, but also by means of
elongating particular glyps². After having read Idris' article³ it
seems like this is a font feature. However, I have no idea which
particular feature is responsible for the elongation and how many
fonts actually have it. I could not find the mentioned Husayni font
anywhere, which seems to be able to do this. So for the time being
the justification is only done by varying the inter-word space.
Arabic is beautiful!
Marco
¹ https://github.com/mpfusion/context-arabic-verse
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida
³ https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98hamid.pdf
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-26 14:15 J. R. Schmid
2013-08-26 18:06 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2013-08-26 20:39 ` Hans Hagen
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2013-08-23 21:12 J. R. Schmid
2013-08-24 14:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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