Hi,

I was wondering why the ligatures in the word الموسي (letters ل and م are joint) work in the second line of the text but in the first line they are written apart – or am I missing something?

Unfortunately I think that's a very common problem that a 10 pt font in latin is very readable but 10 pt in arabic is way too small. I don't think this problem can or should be solved in Pd. I also have it in my mail reader.

m. 

Am 01.02.2013 um 16:56 schrieb Anas Ghrab <anas.ghrab@saramusik.org>:

The first problem is that you can't delete a character witch is not the last written character, because you can't place the cursor just after the wanted one. So it's impossible to edit the comment-text.

Second, all is align at left : the text should be right-aligned (even in the canvas). An example is given in the joined-file.

The default size in very small using the default police... in this example the font-size used is 24.

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Anas

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‫‏في 2013/02/01، الساعة 9:49 ص، كتب IOhannes zmölnig‎:


On 01/31/2013 09:19 PM, Anas Ghrab wrote:
Yes, good to know that...

Is the solution for the problem of the cursor technically known and difficult to realize ?

no idea.
Pd currently manually sets the cursor to be on certain positions, without being aware of RTL/LTR or multicharacter glyphs.
i guess this is the point where we have to investigate what is going wrong.

how annoying is the current behaviour in practice?
(i really have no clue)

fgamrd
IOhannes