Re: Hebrew Presentation Form in Pango Hebrew Engine

[dov imagic weizmann ac il]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:55:14AM -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> 
> Hi Dov,
> 
> 
> ] 
> ] Thus it seems that using these is not really an option. The real
> ] solution is to use kerning tables when ever these are available...
> How about the glyph, U+FB4F, Hebrew ligature alef lamed ?
> This is happending when 2 characters, U+05D0 and U+05DC, are next
> to each other... Can we do it without having the extra glyph ?
> or it's not really needed for hebrew script... ?

It is only used in some old typography of the bible. It is certainly
not something a casual user would even think of using. 

Dov