Re: [css-text] Arabic letters connecting between elements with display: inline

This is slightly off-topic.

While I can imagine wanting to style different parts of ligatures such 
as lm or lH, has anyone actually see cases of the parts of the lam-alif 
ligature being styled differently?

RI


On 27/05/2014 13:51, Lina Kemmel wrote:
> I think one of possible solutions could be painting to 2 different graphic
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> I.e. paint the whole ligature to one GC while lam is clipped out, and
> paint the whole ligature again to another GC with alif being clipped out.
> Of course, to simulate a single lam-alif, accurate measurements to
> properly set positions/clipping would be needed.
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> Regards,
> Lina
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> "Matitiahu Allouche" <matitiahu.allouche@gmail.com>
> 27/05/2014 15:27
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> "'Asmus Freytag'" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, "'Behdad Esfahbod'"
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> RE: [css-text] Arabic letters connecting between elements with  display:
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> Asmus Freytag wrote:
> " I can see why an expectation that color (or underlining) should not
> affect shaping is both reasonable and useful.
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> For generalized font and style breaks, I think it would be enough to
> recommend that these are not intended to break shaping runs.
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> How would you handle the lam-alif ligature, if it had a font or style
> break between the two letters?"
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> I will add that even a color change, which appears to us as reasonable and
> useful, is not so easy to realize when done between  lam and alif.
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> Shalom (Regards),  Mati
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Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2014 13:51:08 UTC