Re: Yudit + Arabic (Betas)

[Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
I hope we will not be kicked off from the list because of
heavy traffic :)

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Karl Koehler wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Karl Koehler wrote:
> > > - While I write a text, it seems to shape. But:
> > > 	Lam+Alef does not form the ligature.
> >
> > We need a kmap that produces Lam+Alef (two characters).
> That should not be a keymap issue. They should always join;
> this U-shaped thing is  ugly with every font I have.

I think putting stacked characters in the keymap is unnoticalble
to the user - he can delete the only the whole stack at once,
anyway. By putting it into the keymap makes a much cleaner
design from  programming point of view. That also frees up
tremendous time  for me :) I need that time if I want right aligned edit
window (*sigh*).

For purely experimental purposes I compiled a stacked kmap file
from Roman Czyborra's original. The perl script and the kmap file
is in:

http://www.yudit.org/download/arabic/

Note that this is just a directory with a couple of files. You
need to put Arabic.my into /usr/share/yudit/data manually.

I did not even have the time to take a first look at it, it may
not work very well. I mostly expect bugs on Yudit's side.

> > > - If I reload, Lam+Alef are joined and form the ligature, but in general
> > >   	not everything is joined.
> >
> > Could you send me a sample of the ones that won't join?
> ya-kaf--lam, kaf-lam-waw, ..
> ( To make it clear: This is after loading a file, not while typing ).
> ( And no, I have not yet looked that closely at shape.mys )

I looked at shape.mys and I could not find a Presentation Form for it.
How do word processors render this? They have their own shape? Oh,
before I forgot, I would like to make Yudit stay a Text editor as
opposed to a word processor. But I don't see shaping a big diversion
from this goal.

Thank for the help,

Gaspar
PS: I already seem to be able to distinguish these letters!
I may learn them before we finish begugging betas :)


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