<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-size: 10px; ">Hi,</span><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; ">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?</span></div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style="">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.</span></div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style=""><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><span style="">m. </span></div><div><br style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; ">Am 01.02.2013 um 16:56 schrieb Anas Ghrab <<a href="mailto:anas.ghrab@saramusik.org">anas.ghrab@saramusik.org</a>>:</span><br style="font-size: 10px; "><br style="font-size: 10px; "><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: 10px; ">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.<br><br>Second, all is align at left : the text should be right-aligned (even in the canvas). An example is given in the joined-file.<br><br>The default size in very small using the default police... in this example the font-size used is 24.<br><br>---<br>Anas<br><br><span><pd-arabic-comments.png></span><br><br>في 2013/02/01، الساعة 9:49 ص، كتب IOhannes zmölnig:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 01/31/2013 09:19 PM, Anas Ghrab wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Yes, good to know that...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Is the solution for the problem of the cursor technically known and difficult to realize ?<br></blockquote><br>no idea.<br>Pd currently manually sets the cursor to be on certain positions, without being aware of RTL/LTR or multicharacter glyphs.<br>i guess this is the point where we have to investigate what is going wrong.<br><br>how annoying is the current behaviour in practice?<br>(i really have no clue)<br><br>fgamrd<br>IOhannes</blockquote></blockquote></div></body></html>