Re: Arabic line spacing problem

[Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba tkos co il>]

Hi John,
I believe that you have a font problem that you can diagnose using a font 
editor. Both Arabic and Hebrew fonts often have much smaller letters per 
point size than Western fonts in order to leave room for above and below 
line diacritics.

In any event, it would help if you could tell us exactly which Arabic font 
you are using and which Western font you are comparing it with.
Regards,

 - yba


On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, 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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