Re: Hebrew text rendering problem

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:13 -0500, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:
> 
> I provide the public service site
> 
> http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml
> 
> of the Hebrew bible (Tanach) in Hebrew.  The site his based on Unicode
> XSLT transformations and yields excellent rendering on all Windows
> operating systems. 
> 
> Under (openSUSE 10.2) Linux the rendering with Firefox 2.0.0.2 is poor. 
> When I enable pango via MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 the rendering improves a
> great deal, but only for SHORT stretches of Hebrew text near about 30
> Unicode characters.

If rendering is correct in gedit, then this is not a GNOME issue.
However, you should try the Firefox shipped in Fedora Core 6 or better,
Fedora development version.  They include lots of patches I wrote that
improve Pango text rendering in Firefox.

And also avoid justified lines at all costs.

behdad


> The required font is SBL Hebrew at
> 
> http://www.tanach.us/Fonts/SBL_Hbrw.ttf
> 
> and a simple test is at
> 
> http://www.tanach.us/Fonts/FontTest.html
> 
> The text rendering in the first 4 cells from the top is excellent.  In
> the 5-th cell, which has one additional word, the markings are offset to
> the left by about half a consonant width.  All longer texts are
> similarly rendered poorly.
> 
> Any help you could provide would benefit Linux based users of this site
> worldwide.
> 
> Chris Kimball
> transcriber tanach us
> 
> 
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