<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Attached are two images. The first is from XeLaTeX where I set a Unicode compliant typeface \newfontfamily{\syr}[Scale=1.2]{Estrangelo Talada} to typeset a sentence in Syriac. This same sentence is then represented in the word-processor Mellel™. In the Mellel example, the vowels appear correctly. When this same text is typeset with XeLaTeX, the vowels crowd towards the baseline. Is the "reason" for this related to the font itself? If so, what in the font file would one need to adjust? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><IMG src="cid:71725BA3-EE27-4FAB-BE25-4CB88165B478@local"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><IMG src="cid:E540C6F2-75E7-4ADF-B9D9-543496BB3D9A@local"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-size: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font-size: 19px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Regards, </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font-size: 19px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Thomas Thackery</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font-size: 27px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">تـومـا ثــاكري</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>