- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:50:00 +0100
- To: Lina Kemmel <LKEMMEL@il.ibm.com>, Matitiahu Allouche <matitiahu.allouche@gmail.com>
- CC: 'Asmus Freytag' <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, 'Behdad Esfahbod' <behdad@behdad.org>, 'fantasai' <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org, 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
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 > contexts. > 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. > > Regards, > Lina > > > > > > "Matitiahu Allouche" <matitiahu.allouche@gmail.com> > 27/05/2014 15:27 > > To > "'Asmus Freytag'" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, "'Behdad Esfahbod'" > <behdad@behdad.org>, "'fantasai'" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, > <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org> > cc > "'WWW International'" <www-international@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org> > Subject > RE: [css-text] Arabic letters connecting between elements with display: > inline > > > > > > > Asmus Freytag wrote: > " I can see why an expectation that color (or underlining) should not > affect shaping is both reasonable and useful. > ... > For generalized font and style breaks, I think it would be enough to > recommend that these are not intended to break shaping runs. > ... > How would you handle the lam-alif ligature, if it had a font or style > break between the two letters?" > > 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. > > -- > Shalom (Regards), Mati > > > > > > >
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