Re: Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-17 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:48:02 -, Urmas wrote: Obviously Tahoma, Arial and Times New Roman do connect letters properly with normal software. that may apply to properly localised distributions rather than to the general case. however, i've been just citing the community forum. -

Re: Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-16 Thread Urmas
"johnny smith": 'First off, OpenOffice does correctly connect the letters. The problem is the font oddly enough. The default font is Tahoma which does not connect e letters. Arial does not connect them either, and neither does Times New Roman. Obviously Tahoma, Arial and Times New Roman do

Re: Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-09 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:42:53 -, mehdi soleimani nasab wrote: Thanks for your reply Johnny. Pair kerning only change the space between letters. My problem is that a word is depicted as "س‌ل‌ا‌م" when it should be "سلام". user FruitLoopMT on the community forum advises as follows: 'First

Re: Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-09 Thread mehdi soleimani nasab
Thanks for your reply Johnny. Pair kerning only change the space between letters. My problem is that a word is depicted as "س‌ل‌ا‌م" when it should be "سلام". On 6/9/13, johnny smith wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:00:04 -, mehdi soleimani > wrote: > >> I am using openoffice 3.4.1 on Mac OS

Re: Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-09 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:00:04 -, mehdi soleimani wrote: I am using openoffice 3.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.8.2 . When I type in Persian/Farsi the letters are not attached to each other as they are supposed to be. I had same problem with Microsoft Office Word 2011 and there was a "ligatures" o

Unattached letters in Persian Words on Mac OSX

2013-06-09 Thread mehdi soleimani
Hi, I am using openoffice 3.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.8.2 . When I type in Persian/Farsi the letters are not attached to each other as they are supposed to be. I had same problem with Microsoft Office Word 2011 and there was a "ligatures" option which did the trick for me. Any idea on a workaround? Is