Re: Arabic line spacing problem

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info>]

Screenshots?

roozbeh

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:10 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> I have an application with internationalized text display working well,
> mostly, using GTK 2.2.4, pango 1.2.5, and UTF-8.  It runs under MontaVista
> Linux and uses gdk_draw_layout to draw all text.  However, I have a
> problem with the application in Arabic.  Spaces between lines in
> multi-line Arabic text are coming out much larger than in other scripts,
> causing Arabic text to vertically run off areas that other scripts having
> the same number of lines fit into.  The spacing looks almost like a blank
> line is being interposed between each two valid lines.  The font
> descriptions in use are just "Sans" plus various sizes, for instance "Sans
> 20".
> 
> I have verified that both Arabic and languages displaying correctly have
> just one \n between lines.
> 
> I have tried using pango_layout_set_spacing to 0.  It made no difference.
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