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Re: [doc] [Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#577254: ttf-arabeyes: Wrong width of diacritics in some fonts
- To: Thamer Mahmoud <thamer dot mahmoud at gmail dot com>, 577254 at bugs dot debian dot org, Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: [doc] [Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#577254: ttf-arabeyes: Wrong width of diacritics in some fonts
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:31:49 +0200
- Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs dot debian dot org>
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:26:27PM +0300, Thamer Mahmoud wrote:
> Package: ttf-arabeyes
> Version: 2.0-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> While using a Xft-enabled Emacs23, I noticed that some fonts included
> in this package have "wide" Arabic diacritics, almost taking up the
> whole line. I did some testing, and I think that this problem is
> caused by the large values of width of diacritics used in some of
> these fonts.
Some of the diacritic glyphs in some fonts have negative width, and I
think it is causing this weired behaviour in Emacs. I'm going to fix it,
but I guess emacs should handle negative glyph widths in a better way.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer