TAKAHASHI Naoto | 11 Dec 08:14

Re: Hebrew text with points

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> I'd say it's perfect.  What were the reasons people regarded the display 
> as ``not perfect''?

The position of points can be improved.  For example,

#######
     #
     #
     #
     .

would be better than the current

#######
     #
     #
     #
   .

The printing in the textbook I have consulted supports this opinion.
What do you think?

> I do think that a decent way of typing points is important; asking users 
> to know the Unicode codepoints is too much.

Of course I can easily add experimental input method for points; just
adding a number of quail rules suffices.

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Yitzchak M. Gottlieb | 11 Dec 15:40
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Re: Hebrew text with points

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
> The position of points can be improved.  For example,
> 

Agreed.  However, this type of kerning is generally font dependent.

> 
> However, I wonder how big the requirement is.  Are Hebrew users keen
> to type points?  They usually do without points, right?
> 

Usually, but I am on at least one mailing list where adding points would be
very useful on some words (to emphasize correct pronunciation).  This feature
could be useful.

Just my two cents,
Zuki

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