RE: Arabic text rising high above baseline

Yes, I will be happy to send you the file. Because attachments are forbidden
on the list, please provide your direct e-mail address to me at:

dsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,

Don

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:58 PM
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> Subject: Re:  Arabic text rising high above baseline
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>
> Dear Mr. Smith,
>
> Would you please send me the portion of your troubled
> Arabic ?
>
> You may zip the portion.
>
> I am now studying rendering of Arabic, and going to present
> a report at the small meeting in Tokyo about "Rendering
> Arabic with Unicode and XSL-FO" on March 1st. It will be possible
> to discuss the topic at the meeting.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tokushige Kobayashi
>
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an FO stylesheet that renders Arabic content. I have
> a small set
> of words in Arabic that rise significantly above the baseline compared to
> all the other Arabic words. So high, in fact, that in tables they
> crash into
> the top cell border (but all other words are fine).
>
> Does anyone know (a) what causes this (is it simply a matter of the
> particular characters that make up the word and the accents, etc.
> used?) and
> (b) whether there is any to be done to bring these specific words
> closer to
> the baseline (without affecting the others)?
>
> (I do have an example file but the Arabic content will be lost if
> I copy and
> paste; anyone interested in seeing this in either FO or PDF let me know.
> I'll send it to you off list. Also, I don't know Arabic so I can't report
> which words are exhibiting this behavior.)
>
> Thanks
>
> Don
>
>
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