From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:39:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521BBCFB.1080507@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130826180629.GV18239@homerow>
On 8/26/2013 8:06 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> 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.
there is a special mechanism for that in context already for some years
but it works best with arabic fonts that have an extensive featureset
like the upcoming husayni ... once that font is ready idris will wrap up
the systematic approach related to this font (as it depends on featuresets)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-26 20:39 UTC|newest]
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
2013-08-26 20:39 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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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