Timeline for How does the Arabic typographic layout system work at a high level?
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| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1197167872314871808 | ||
| S Nov 12, 2019 at 4:03 | history | edited | Theraot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Grammar fixed
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| S Nov 12, 2019 at 4:03 | history | suggested | Łukasz D. Tulikowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Grammar fixed
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| Nov 11, 2019 at 16:24 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 11, 2019 at 1:57 | answer | added | Lance Pollard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | Jim DeLaHunt | In the above, "don't rendering" should be "font rendering". Auto-correct let me down, then I lost internet connectivity for long enough to lose my chance to edit. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 17:19 | comment | added | Jim DeLaHunt | You ask "how the font rendering engine renders Arabic text", as if there is only one "don't rendering engine". In fact, there are multiple such engines (e.g. the current Windows engine, older Windows engines, the current macOS engine, the current Android engine, the extremely fine engine from DecoType, etc. etc.) There could be different best answers for each of these engines. Additionally, there is an Arabic writing tradition based on calligraphy, which will differ from the approximations by the various engines. I don't think this question has a single factual answer. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 15:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 10, 2019 at 14:55 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | gnasher729 | This is not "justified according to Western conventions", it is "justified according to the code in one specific typesetting system". Which typesetting system is it? TextEdit on my Mac definitely stretches the glyphs for Arabic text, not the spaces, and so does Pages. You can expect the same on most macOS and iOS applications, and I wouldn't be surprised if Android got it right as well. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 14:16 | history | asked | Lance Pollard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |