<div dir="ltr">Hi Behdad,<br><br>Please find attached the font. The letter "lamed" (afii57676) has a long swash ascender, which causes the word beginning with it to look connected to the preceding word. By using 'init' I'm trying to prevent it and to replace afii57676 with lamed.initial (U+e000), which has a more modest ascender.<br>
<br>Regarding the principle of 'init', I couldn't see any feature which would better fit for this purpose. The description at the Adobe site doesn't state this is Arabic-specific or like. Do you know any feature which could be used instead?<br>
<br>Thank you,<br> -- Maxim.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 11/11/10 18:38, Maxim Iorsh wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I intend to use 'init' feature in a certain Hebrew font, but it seems<br>
> there is no support for this in Pango (at least not in my standard<br>
> Inkscape installation). Is it just my problem, or there is indeed need<br>
> to implement it somehow (in HarfBuzz/Pango/Inkscape/elsewhere)? Is it<br>
> supported per script or globally? Some Latin cursives also feature<br>
> distinctive initial letters.<br>
><br>
> To make it clear, 'init' is not necessary to render Hebrew properly. It<br>
> is just an artistic feature of a specific cursive font.<br>
<br>
</div>Can I see the font? This is the first time I've seen 'init' being used in<br>
that way. Does the font work on Windows? 'init' is *not* for fancy initials.<br>
It's a feature specific to how Arabic, Syriac, and similar scripts work.<br>
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behdad<br>
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> HarfBuzz code suggests that certain scripts (e.g. Syriac) do support it.<br>
> If it is indeed so, I would be grateful if you could briefly refer me to<br>
> the code which probes the word boundary and performs substitution.<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
> -- Maxim.<br>
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