Hi Helge, It seems that ligatures really describe what I need .. Now is there some ready made functions in LyX for those replacements ? are they used in LyX in the first place ? Do I have to create the replacement functions ? or use some existing ones ? Thank you Helge for helping me with the word ligatures as it exactly describe what I need .. One little note .. you said: >Well, perhaps it is necessary > for displaying on screen, but not for printing or print previewing
Well the replacements I am talking about are necessary for Printing as well, as it improved readability in screen or paper.. it improves readability in a way that not using it would be unaccepted.. Yours Isam Bayazidi On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:00, you wrote: > Isam Bayazidi wrote: > > I am not 100% sure what you mean .. but what I exactly mean is: > > the letter ALEF have a shape .. the letter LAM have a shape .. when you > > put the letters LAM_ALEF in that sequance in a word, they will not have > > the shape of LAM+ALEF , but instead they have another shape .. so there > > will be one shape for 2 letters .. here is what I mean .. > > Could this be solved with ligatures? I don't know about arabic, > but in latin text the sequence "ffi" is usually replaced with > a "ffi" ligature. (similar for fi, fl, ffl). Some > fonts have even more ligatures. A ligature character > usually looks like a "good" concatenation of the characters > that makes it, but this is not a requirement. > > Note that ligatures is a font property, so it don't need any > extra support from lyx. Well, perhaps it is necessary > for displaying on screen, but not for printing or print previewing.
