On 8/26/2013 8:06 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
In contrast to Latin script, justifying Arabic text is not solely achieved by varying the inter-word space, but also by means of elongating particular glyps². After having read Idris' article³ it seems like this is a font feature. However, I have no idea which particular feature is responsible for the elongation and how many fonts actually have it. I could not find the mentioned Husayni font anywhere, which seems to be able to do this. So for the time being the justification is only done by varying the inter-word space.
there is a special mechanism for that in context already for some years but it works best with arabic fonts that have an extensive featureset like the upcoming husayni ... once that font is ready idris will wrap up the systematic approach related to this font (as it depends on featuresets) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------