Re: Font Rendering Issues on Linux But Not Windows

On 18/06/11 09:59, Mathew Brown wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:11 +0200, "Tony Mechelynck"
> <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> When viewing pointed Arabic text in GTK2 gvim, I don't always see it
>> displayed correctly; moving the cursor over the text may correct the
>> error.
>
> This is the exact issue that I have. I also had this issue on Windows.
> But as soon as I set cDEFAULT on Windows, the problem disappeared.
> But moving the cursor over the text really isn't a very nice solution.
> I've found that some fonts such as Courier New 12 render the Arabic
> text properly without any display issues, but the font itself isn't
> very pleasing or easy to read (at least the Arabic version). I'm
> trying to find a solution. As a temporary work around, is there any
> way that you can get the same effect as moving the cursor over the
> letters again to make them display properly but without having to do
> this manually? I mean is there any way to trigger this same behavior
> in an easier way? Thanks.
[...]

If only I knew one!

Courier New 12, you say? Let me try it... Yes indeedy! I'm posting
another snapshot, IMHO the result is quite good, no worse than can be
expected of any Arabic monospace font -- but of course, Arabic, with its
end-of-word flourishes and its letters of extremely varying width, is
essentially unsuited to monospace fonts in general: Arabic is meant to
be written with a calamus, not a typewriter.

http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/salaam-rahma-courier.png

Same "pointed" source text as before.

Oh, and Courier New 20 is even better-looking, even with thick and thin
strokes (and, surprise! even the lam-shadda-superscript_alef in "Allah"
is correctly displayed), but of course the bigger the font, the less
text can fit on a page.
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/salaam-rahma-courier20.png

Best regards,
Tony.
--
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