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"I don't think your change allows the kashida to work..."
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Both you and Vafa are right regarding the above statement. The fact
that jaggedness was gone from the screen, gave me the false impression
the problem was solved. So I set back the value to "0.5" as before.
While now kashida works, unfortunately, I do see the jaggedness when
I print a Syriac document on a 1200 dpi laser printer with 10pt font
size. So, any idea how to solve this problem? <br>
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Regards,<br>
Sargon<br>
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Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sargon Hasso wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thank you very much! I can't thank you enough and you are right it
does improve the output greatly.
There was one glitch however and I was able to figure it out and fix
it rather easily (with little insight). The kashida was slightly
misplaced between characters above the base line with fonts I am using
with dramatic effects. I changed this line:
\def\kashida{\zwj\nobreak \setbox0=\hbox{\ksh}%
� �\leaders\hrule height\ht0 \hskip0pt plus 0.5em \zwj}
to
\def\kashida{\zwj\nobreak \setbox0=\hbox{\ksh}%
� �\leaders\hrule height\ht0 \hskip0pt plus 0.0em \zwj}
(\hskip0pt plus 0em from \hskip0pt plus 0.5em)
(see attached image before and after).
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I don't think your change allows the kashida to work ... if you're
concerned about the jagged look on the screen results, you'll find that
it prints fine. Jonathan told me the screen output looks choppy
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<pre wrap="">because the extension is being drawn using TeX "rules" rather than
actual glyphs from the font, and these are not subject to the same
hinting for screen display. But at sufficiently high resolution --
such as on a good printer -- there should be no visible problem.
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You can also try \makebox[1.2\width][s]{syriac text goes here.} on short
phrases on lines by themselves.
I hope that helps.
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