ramseynasser

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   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   Exactly. Although @jorendorff on GitHub turned me on to a great Unicode feature that might help: https://github.com/nasser/---/pull/4
2. 32.▲
   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   Glad you like it! RTL was overcome by using the latest CodeMirror and this https://github.com/marijnh/CodeMirror/pull/1103
3. 33.▲
   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   I'm not so interested in automatic generation of calligraphy for this project, to be honest. I find something meditative about spending a lot of time sweating over laying out these algorithms. It mirrors the struggle I had (we all had, I im
4. 34.▲
   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   There are rules to follow to make sure the letters remain readable, but its mostly a lot of staring at a grid and trying to make it all look right.
5. 35.▲
   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   No, I write the code normally, then I manually lay out the tile calligraphy and build the mosaics by hand. There's no way to automate the process that I know of. It's tricky to get everything to fit together and look right. I am a novice at
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   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   True, but you can stretch out Arabic symbols for perfect symmetry without a lot of stupid whitespace! Check it out http://twitpic.com/bnpjvy
7. 37.▲
   by ramseynasser 14y ago

   Thanks for your feedback! I agree that language itself is the real challenge. I had to deal with a lot of RTL/encoding issues, sure, but the real difficulty is how do you map engrained concepts from one culture to the next? I don't have any