Re: character-spacing & cursively-connected characters

[Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail yahoo com>]

 --- Damon Chaplin <damon karuna uklinux net> wrote: >
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 00:09, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:53, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to determine if 2 clusters are
> > > cursively-connected? (i.e. the glyphs are
> > > joined up in some way.)
> > > 
> > > I think in some scripts like Arabic nearly all
> > > clusters are connected, and you can even get
> > > cursive Latin fonts.
> > > 
> > > I'm thinking of using character spacing in my
> > > justification routines, maybe just as a
> > > fallback for when word-spacing fails. But I
> > > can't really do that for cursively-connected
> > > clusters.
> > > 
> > 
> > How can word-spacing "fail" ?
> 
> If only one word fits on the line there may be no
> spaces to expand.
> 
> The TeX algorithm also tries very hard not to
> stretch spaces above a certain ratio. So this is
> another sort of failure case.

Also, some languages including Thai discourage spaces
between words, and other languages including Khmar
completely forbid spaces between words.
I'm not sure if there is a method of justification
used in print in these languages.

Andrew Dunbar.

> Damon
> 
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