saadat

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by saadat 3mo ago
Ah! Or, it could be that out of all system fonts on MacOS, only Noto Nastaliq Urdu has a glyph for the bismillah, and thus the system uses it as a fallback...
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by saadat 3mo ago
In your iMessage screenshot, this character is being rendered in Noto Nastaliq Urdu[1], which is a font that uses the nastaliq flavor of the Arabic script (as compared to the more widely used naskh flavor, which you're most probably se
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by saadat 4y ago
Well, there's Scribus, which may or may not suit your desktop publishing needs: https://www.scribus.net/
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by saadat 4y ago
The CSS property leading-trim [1][2] is designed to solve this alignment problem (among others). However, it's still at the Working Draft stage, so it's going to take a while before browsers start supporting it. [1]: https:/
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by saadat 7y ago
Or use the Reader View/Reader mode in Firefox/Safari.
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by saadat 8y ago
That link omits some parts of the essay. Complete version here: http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
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by saadat 9y ago
Look at the PDF's "PDF Producer", "Creator", or "Application" metadata fields in a PDF reader application.
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by saadat 10y ago
Are you using Firefox? I see the same black box in Firefox too (which is actually an SVG inside an <img> tag), but in Chrome, it renders fine: https://imgur.com/a/NdvKN
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by saadat 10y ago
Monotype has published a case study too: http://www.monotype.com/resources/case-studies/more-than-800...
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by saadat 10y ago
Google's announcement [1] about OT font variations mentions that a CSS proposal is in the works: > Together with other browser makers, we’re already working on a proposal to extend CSS fonts with variations. Once everyone agrees on
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by saadat 10y ago
The same is true for Urdu as well, so if you want to distinguish Urdu from Persian: look for a backward moving (i.e. towards the right) horizontal stroke at the end of a word. This stroke will always run under the preceding letters of the w