Either fully-justified (bottom) or full-lines only (top):
But only with certain fonts. Al-Bayan, yes; Geeza Pro, no. A little more than half of the fonts are supported for full justification in WorldText.
Of course WorldText wasn't a viable text editor or word processor (under 9 or X), but it does show that the APIs were there in the OS all along; people just had to add them to their apps if they wanted to support kashidas.
Mellel also has kashida support, but only with Windows OTF fonts, of course. I still think Neo/J's kashidas are slightly better than Mellel's but it's close. And since Neo/J only supports AAT fonts and Mellel only OTF, well....
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:
Yes but they are special softwares with their own input method ! So I am right, with Apple softwares or softwares that use Apple input method it wasn't !
Could you do it in TextEdit ?? No. in Pages ?? No. In Keynote ?? No. But with Tiger it is possible now. _________________ iMac G5 20" 1,8 Ghz Mac OS X 10.4.8
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Yes but they are special softwares with their own input method ! So I am right, with Apple softwares or softwares that use Apple input method it wasn't !
Mellel and Neo/J, yes. But not WorldText. WorldText is built atop the standard Mac OS (X) ATSUI APIs (it was the "demo app" for them, in fact), nothing special about it, except Apple used the kashida API and no other ATSUI apps did
M-Rick wrote:
Could you do it in TextEdit ?? No. in Pages ?? No. In Keynote ?? No. But with Tiger it is possible now.
This good news, indeed. Perhaps the kashida API only used to be exposed to Carbon apps and it's now exposed to Cocoa apps, too.
Anyway....
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:
yes they are good news, it means that Apple listened the users feadbacks. so maybe we can plan to have compatibility with OOo since it is used a lot in European administrations in here.
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