Diacritics in Arabic and Kerning

Bogidar · January 11, 2018, 4:16pm

Hello!

Somehow the kerning does not work in waw when we add a fatha.
On top the correct kerning and on the bottom the kerning does not apply.

Any ideas what is causing it?

mekkablue · January 12, 2018, 12:01am

The Kerning would need to have an IgnoreMarks flag. Which app version are you using, and how did you implement Kerning?

Bogidar · January 18, 2018, 9:59am

I am using the version 2.4 of Glyphs.

I applied as well as I would do in the latin but from right to left.

GeorgSeifert · January 18, 2018, 10:07am

Can you try the latest version (that is 2.4.4)?

mekkablue · January 18, 2018, 10:17am

And make sure your Edit View is in RTL mode.

Bogidar · February 15, 2018, 9:25am

I tried with the new version but I still have the same problem! any suggestion?

mekkablue · February 15, 2018, 8:43pm

Where are you testing the kerning?

Bogidar · February 16, 2018, 9:24am

Indesign!

Bendy · February 16, 2018, 10:03am

I wonder whether Glyphs is compiling the mark feature with any language tags? Even until recently (v 1114) I found that the mark feature would not activate if text was tagged as Burmese, implying there’s still some iffy behaviour with script/language tags. EDIT I mean that could also apply to the kern feature, which is auto-generated like the mark feature, and the script tags are not easily accessible for auto-generated features.