I did a little more experimenting after last night's message. It seems that different fonts behave somewhat differently with combining characters. All of the following reflects the behaviors of the fonts that come with xorg-x11 on fc4.
David font combines correctly but the tropes are slightly to the left in comparison to the vowels. This makes it so that they don't collide with the vowels, but sometimes they collide with the actual character. For example, in segol below the segol trope collides with upper stem on the lamed. Aharoni appears to behave similarly to David. Miriam Mono has both the tropes and the vowels in the same horizontal position as the consonants. However, it makes no adjustments for the presence of 2 combining characters at the same vertical position. As a result, the tropes and vowels often overlap. Miriam CLM pushes both the vowels and the tropes to the left. This ends up being entirely wrong. They are both out of position and overlap. So... it looks like at least some of the problem is with the rendering engine and some is with inconsistently executed font metrics. Dick On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 09:26 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Richard Schoeller wrote: > > I just did a little experiment with gedit and it actually handles trope > > and vowels on the same consonants. Like the following: > > <> זָקֵף־קָט֔ן group <> גֵ֜רֶשׁ & רְבִיעִ֗י groups <> סֶגוֹל֒ group > > > > Interestingly, this must be built into the gnome text widget, because > > Evolution handles it brilliantly as well. Mozilla still does it wrong; > > not quite so badly as it use to, but still wrong. > > Ah; then we have to do some investigation; LilyPond, since also uses the > gnome "text widget". > -- Dick Schoeller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://schoeller.hsd1.ma.comcast.net/ 781.449.5476 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
