The secrets of calligraphy!

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I asked in the past to know some of the things in arabic font related to some of the glyphs (U+0600, U+0602, U+0600, U+06DD).Is there new?

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I could not find your question in the archive. What is it that you wanted to know?

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watch this video

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It doesn’t load for me. Can you try quickcast maybe?

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mediafire

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Reminder Please pay attention

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I watched the video. Can you please tell us what your question is?

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What is the method of producing this form with these characters in GlyphsApp.

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I guess it is done via contextual kerning.

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Confirm that this method is used, but what is the interpretation of some extended characters!

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I can’t see the video from a table, but are you asking about kashida?

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Interpretation? You mean which glyph name? Look inside the font and see which Unicode it has. I don’t think I have the font.

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No asking about kashida.

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Please Watch this video.

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The movie does not play for me, unfortunately.

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Try here

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But that is the same video as before. Whatever. Have you tried to solve it with contextual kerning?

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contextual kerning not work with arabic!

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Hi @iSkyFalConS,

Maybe you should try some contextual alternatives as @mekkablue suggested.

I will give you a hint:

First, declare your glyph classes, one set of numbers with the bar below and the other without it:

@num = [ one two three four five six seven eight nine zero ]; 
@num_with_line = [ one.line two.line three.line four.line five.line six.line seven.line eight.line nine.line zero.line ];
@num_without_line = [ one.noLine two.noLine three.noLine four.noLine five.noLine six.noLine seven.noLine eight.noLine nine.noLine zero.noLine ];

Then, make the easy substitution with the straight glyph:

lookup beginning {
	lookupflag IgnoreMarks RightToLeft;
	sub baseGlyphs @num' by @num_with_line;
} beginning;

lookup ending {
	lookupflag IgnoreMarks RightToLeft;
	sub @num_with_line @num' by @num_with_line;
} ending;

Now, for the glyphs that have a curve, you need to draw few different glyph lengths, then you can try something like this:

sub baseGlyphsFixedWithd' @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line by baseGlyphsFixedWithd.lenght02;
sub baseGlyphsFixedWithd' @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line @num_without_line by baseGlyphsFixedWithd.lenght01;

That is the principle for some ornaments that I wrote for a font, you can see the video here.

Best,

Nicolás

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Thanks Nicolás, this method is good but it is inefficient, Publishing and printing companies used those symbols, “as before,” and they have a number of books that are quote them with to change the font, size, color just does not field they have to modify or replace their approach as proposed.