OpenEuphoria

Re: better with bigfonts

• Posted by "Bruce M. Axtens" <bruce_axtens at SIL.ORG> Jun 23, 1999
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Thus spake Norm Goundry  on Tue, 22 Jun 1999:
>The routines you wrote for Bigfont (for me and the Chinese Translator) are
>now working OK!

Has anyone done anything about context-sensitive fonts of the Arabic/Urdu
tradition where the glyphs change shape depending on whether they are word-
initial, word-medial or word-final?

The beauty of Chinese/Korean is you can get away with a fixed-size block, one
per glyph, and everything's hunkydory.

Urdu, however, (which can be done fixed-size but looks gross) looks better with
varying length blocks and all the context-sensitive stuff. For instance the
'noon', which does for an 'n', has a word-initial form, a word-medial form, a
word-final form and a word-final form where it is being used to indicate
nasalisation of the previous vowel (in which case its dot is missing). Oh yes,
Urdu has dots, lots of them, though thankfully not as many as Sindhi.

Anyway, let me know if anyone's doing anything about this, ok?

Bruce.
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