Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:37, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Isam, you seem to me to be describing input using the "Compose" key, a.k.a
> Multi_key, which LyX certainly does support. Eg with latin1 encoding
> Compose a ' -> �Compose u " ->
> Compose l = ->
>
> I'm no expert but assume that Arabic encoding can use this too.

I am not 100% sure what you mean .. but what I exactly mean is:
the letter ALEF have a shape .. the letter LAM have a shape .. when you put 
the letters LAM_ALEF in that sequance in a word, they will not have the shape 
of LAM+ALEF , but instead they have another shape .. so there will be one 
shape for 2 letters .. here is what I mean ..
  I guess that Far east languages have this complex shaping, where more than 
one keyboard key are used to compose one shape .. in Arabic we have it as 
when two letters LAM and ALEF come after each other, they have another 1 
shape instead of 2 ..

So this is not a keyboard issue, but rather a shaping issue ..

BTW Dekel Tsur: Did you accept the patch ? is it OK ? will it be added to the 
CVS TREE ?

Yours
Isam Bayazidi

>
> Check xmodmap to see whether your X is configured. You're looking for
> "Multi_key":
> aleem at pneumon:aleem-> xmodmap
> xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>
> shift       Shift_L (0x12),  Shift_R (0x59)
> lock        Caps_Lock (0x14)
> control     Control_L (0x11)
> mod1        Alt_L (0x19),  Alt_R (0x39)
> mod2        Multi_key (0x28),  Multi_key (0x58)
> mod3
> mod4
> mod5
>
> Regards,
> Angus