khaled

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by khaled 7y ago
The local variants are actually older than standard Arabic (they all seem to stem from a common source). The standard Arabic is a synthetic language invented by grammarians who selected what they considered the best of all Arabic dialects a
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by khaled 7y ago
Hamza is a letter (basically it is what the letter alif is supposed to be, the long vowel usually written as alif is not a letter itself). But for historical reason it has a very weird set of orthographic rules where is can or can not be se
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by khaled 7y ago
That is the Type 1 realization of it, the original Metafont outputs bitmaps tailored for the target device. Unfortunately no widely font rendering library supports Metafont directly, so they are often converted to Type 1 or OpenType and loo
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by khaled 7y ago
Most of that is documentation (PDF files) and fonts (often in multiple formats for the same font). I skip the documentation and read them online on texdoc.net, and it trimmed down my installation size to 2.9GB (2.1GB of which are fonts).
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by khaled 8y ago
Depends where you live I guess, here in Egypt barbers are usually open till midnight (and even till the next morning in Eid eve). Private clinics usually work evening hours as well.
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by khaled 8y ago
That happens in TeX as well, the width of “efficient” does not necessarily equal to the width of “ef” + “ficient” due to the presence of ligatures, and TeX deals with it by storing the width of the full ligature as well as the pre and post-
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by khaled 8y ago
I think browser support for Brotli is mostly a side effect of supporting WOFF2 font format (which uses Brotli).
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by khaled 8y ago
May be because Brotli was mainly for WOFF2 font format, so mission accomplished?
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by khaled 8y ago
There are more characters outside BMP than just emoji.
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by khaled 9y ago
Why the locals not speaking English is a bad thing?
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by khaled 9y ago
Text rendering and layout is hard. There are few open source Freetype competitors, but they are all lacking compared to it. Same for HarfBuzz, though the alternative I know of are either dormant or abandoned.
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by khaled 9y ago
So which of these are Latin and which are Greek ΑΒΕΗΚΜΝΟΡΤΧΥΖ, ABEHKMNOPTXYZ?
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by khaled 9y ago
I’ve seen all of these used quite extensively. It depends on what kind of fields you are familiar with.
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by khaled 9y ago
They are used by OpenType math fonts and systems that use them (e.g. the new equation editor in Word from 2007 on wards, and Unicode-capable TeX systems with the `unicode-math` package).
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by khaled 9y ago
I think it is not included in -Wall because such prototype are legitimate pre-ANSI K&R C function prototypes.
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by khaled 9y ago
GCC has -Wstrict-prototypes.
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by khaled 9y ago
I use Plain TeX for short and simple documents (which is pretty much most of my needs), it is often simpler than coercing LaTeX to do the layout I need.
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by khaled 9y ago
Because he wrote TeX and Plain TeX to cover his needs (writing TAOCP mostly), which might not be the same as everyone else’s?
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by khaled 9y ago
Mapping between different orthographies is not usually that obvious though, unless they are designed to have one to one mapping, it can be tricky and lead to ambiguity or even cryptic gibberish.
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by khaled 10y ago
CJK glyphs are always double width, there is no other way around it.
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by khaled 10y ago
LibreOffice dropped OS/2 support early on in the project lifetime, Apache OpenOffice didn’t and a company was maintaining an OS/2 port at some point.
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Why Unicode Will Work on the Internet (2001)(features.slashdot.org)
1 points by khaled 10y ago|0 comments
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by khaled 10y ago
An extensive and very informative, though a bit sarcastic, rebuttal (from 2001 as well): https://features.slashdot.org/story/01/06/06/0132203/why-uni... (via https://twitter.com/Fake
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by khaled 10y ago
Persian is written in the Arabic script. If you search for Persian it will give you Noto Arabic fonts.
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by khaled 10y ago
Matthew Butterick just hates anything related to Google since they started Google Fonts, don’t hold your breath.
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by khaled 10y ago
Can you link to the bug report?
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by khaled 10y ago
Only fonts with “reserved name” clause have such restriction, and then you are only required to rename the modified font.
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by khaled 10y ago
The fonts are mostly built by Monotype, with the exception of CJK fonts which are built by Adobe, in the regular way of designing and building fonts.
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by khaled 10y ago
There was ~70% saving between using variable fonts and regular instances. Compression is already applied to web fonts, and you can compress variable fonts as well, so it is not like they are mutually exclusive.
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by khaled 10y ago
Do you have bug reports about PDF printing issues, I’d like to have a look myself (I have some interest in streamlining LibreOffice text layout code and part of it would be killing PostScript printing support at some point, but if PDF print

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