[XeTeX] Xenotype font and Syriac scripting

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:11:32PM +0000, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2010, at 21:52, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> 
> > Curiously, the "Kashida" code you've given before, Jonathan, breaks the scripting. But that's a minor concern.
> 
> This indicates (I believe) that the AAT tables in the font do not support the Zero-Width Joiner character (ZWJ, U+200D), which is needed to get the correct joining forms where the kashida rules are inserted. You could raise this with the font developer, who may simply not have considered this issue.

I thought that AAT fonts can do more smart kashida justification?

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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