Re: khotot

[nadim at arabeyes dot org (Nadim Shaikli)]

On Wednesday - 7.April.2004 [19:23:26 +0200],
 Ken Beesley (Ken dot Beesley at xrce dot xerox dot com) wrote:
 > 
 > Hello Nadim,

Hello back :-)  Do please use Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list
in the future instead of contacting me directly.

 > I downloaded the khotot fonts recently, tried them in
 > Linux/Gnome/gedit (version 2.4.1), and was particularly
 > impressed by  KacstBook.ttf

Well, thanks for the praise but since we had nothing to do with
all the KACST fonts (we simply mirror them), you might want to
contact them directly (http://www.kacst.edu.sa/en).

 > Thank you for your good work on fonts.

We continue to need more people to help out in the area (if you
are interested in lending a hand, please let us know).

 > I did notice a problem, which I report in the most
 > friendly spirit.

All problems/bugs need to be reported, in a friendly manner
or otherwise :-)

 > If I enter the following sequence of characters:
 > 
 > 0644  (laam)
 > 064E  (fatHa)
 > 0627  ('alif)
 > 
 > then I should see the laam-alif ligature with the fatHa
 > on top of the laam part.   At least that's how I understand
 > the script.  But what I currently see rendered
 > is something roughly like
 > 
 > Ú
 > 
 > where the laam is linked naively to the 'alif.

I don't think this is the fonts fault (well I'm not 100% sure
due to the TTFs having GSUBs, etc) but you might want to check
the various display engines and how they handle this scanario.

Do you have fonts that deal with this situation as expected ?
If so, can you point me at the font to take a quick peek.

Do please reply to 'general' and not me.

Thanks & Salam.

 - Nadim