khaled

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by khaled 3mo ago
Numbers below 100 are always read from right to left even in vernacular/informal/dialectical Arabic.
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by khaled 3mo ago
There is no unjoined form of Arabic. The Arabic script became Arabic when Nabataean script started developing joined letter forms. Unjoined Nabatean is as foreign to Arabic as Phoenician is to Greek.
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HarfBuzz Study: Caching(docs.google.com)
2 points by khaled 1y ago|0 comments
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by khaled 2y ago
> I don't think it generates better results It does if one is doing typesetting math-heavy documents. Nothing really matches TeX quality or flexibility in math typesetting, not even typst (yet, at least).
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by khaled 2y ago
> And unicode is an evolving standard where this normalisation sometimes changes between standards Unicode normalization is subject to its stability policy, and Unicode no longer allow adding new canonically equivalent code points. http
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by khaled 2y ago
One reason that comes to mind, is to make sure no extra text is inserted in the empty space e.g. after a contract is signed.
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by khaled 2y ago
In some countries, legal documents are required to not have any paragraph breaks, so you can have a document with one paragraph spanning 100s of pages. OpenOffice has a hard limit of 65534 per paragraph, and it took LibreOffice quite some w
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by khaled 2y ago
The fix looks like a 5 line fix because it is a last step in a very long process of optimizing LibreOffice text layout that started years ago. This 5 line fix could not have been possible 10 years ago simply because the code it is fixing di
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Advances in font technology and GTK text rendering(lwn.net)
4 points by khaled 2y ago|0 comments
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by khaled 2y ago
This is still not rasterization, but a way to modify glyph outlines on the fly. How they are rasterized eventually should be mostly unchanged.
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by khaled 3y ago
For some weird reason, printing defaulted to printing only selected text, but this is finally fixed https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139164
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Shaping the Future of Typography: embedded WASM in fonts and more(medium.com)
1 points by khaled 3y ago|0 comments
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by khaled 4y ago
In Arabic, Mercury (planet) and mercury (element) are two different words (عطارد and زئبق), here the machine translation is using the wrong mercury for the context.
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by khaled 4y ago
Photoshop relatively recently consolidated its text layout into a single layout engine (based on HarfBuzz) and Arabic support no longer an opt-in (which was the source of the trouble, you had to know you need to opt-in Arabic support before
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by khaled 4y ago
That is not the point I’m making, rather a single person is responsible for how most of software render text in most of the world writing systems and no one is wondering how 6 billion people on this planet so much depend on the work of “thi
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by khaled 4y ago
There is 99% chance the software you are reading text on right now uses HarfBuzz to lay out the text, a library written mainly by a Persian person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz
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Fonts – 2022 – The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive(almanac.httparchive.org)
1 points by khaled 4y ago|1 comments
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by khaled 4y ago
Font usage on the web, 2022 edition.
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by khaled 4y ago
Reem Kufi designer here, that is the original form of ع in Arabic and the only form used in manuscript Kufi. Kufi-inspired typefaces often use the more familiar form from later calligraphic styles. Reem Kufi has an alternate form as well, b
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HarfBuzz Study: hb-ITER, C++20 Ranges-like abstraction(twitter.com)
1 points by khaled 4y ago|0 comments
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HarfBuzz Study: A C library written in C++(twitter.com)
2 points by khaled 4y ago|0 comments
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HarfBuzz: Why FreeType glyph widths is 10x slower than internal functions(twitter.com)
2 points by khaled 4y ago|0 comments
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HarfBuzz 5.0.0 supports fonts with more than 65535 glyphs(twitter.com)
1 points by khaled 4y ago|0 comments
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PackTab: A static integer table packer(docs.google.com)
3 points by khaled 4y ago|0 comments
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by khaled 5y ago
FWIW, libharfbuzz has no hard dependencies at all and it is fully functional when built with all optional dependencies disabled.
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by khaled 5y ago
Firefox user, no problem here. The OP screenshot has different fonts that the page sets, so looks like both of you have web fonts disabled.
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by khaled 6y ago
I strand by my comment. Replicate core TeX (and LaTeX) core features is easy (text layout, hyphenation, line breaking, math typesetting, etc. all are solved issue, often with many independent implementation that are as good as TeX‘s if not
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by khaled 6y ago
I can count like half a dozen TeX/LaTeX alternatives (SILE, Patoline, Platypus, Lout, some are more dead than the others) without even looking them up. It is easy to make a TeX/LaTeX alternative, it is hard to get people to use it
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by khaled 7y ago
> It's like doing math in local notation Math is taught in Arabic, using Arabic notation and written from right to left in many Arabic countries. That is basically the only form of math I’m personally familiar with.
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by khaled 7y ago
Some low level text libraries (FriBiDi, HarfBuzz) use UTF-32 as it makes code simpler when you have to work on it at code point level. Most code does not need that of course and is better off working as a different level than code points.

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