On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 12:37:26PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle@debian.org): > > > While using a Xft-enabled Emacs23, I noticed that some fonts included > > > > in this package have "wide" Arabic diacritics, almost taking up the > > > > whole line. I did some testing, and I think that this problem is > > > > caused by the large values of width of diacritics used in some of > > > > these fonts. > > > > > > Some of the diacritic glyphs in some fonts have negative width, and I > > > think it is causing this weired behaviour in Emacs. I'm going to fix it, > > > but I guess emacs should handle negative glyph widths in a better way. > > > > As I understand, that will mean a new "upstream" version release in > > Arabeyes.org. Am I right > > > > If that's correct, please keep us posted so that we can fix the font > > in Debian (and later on Ubuntu). > > > > Has there been any progress on this? Sorry for the delay, a new release that, hopefully, fixes this issue have been uploaded to sourceforge. Please someone tests it with Emacs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arabeyes/files/Fonts/ae_fonts/ae_fonts_decorative-2.1.tar.bz2/download Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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