Re: Missing geometric shapes

From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:27:30 +0900

On 2012/11/08 19:15, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 8 Nov 2012, at 09:59, Simon Montagu<smontagu_at_smontagu.org> wrote:
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>> Please take into account that the half-stars should be symmetric-swapped in RTL text. I attach an example from an advertisment for a movie published in Haaretz 2 November 2012
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> I don't think Geometric Shapes have the mirror property.
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> 2605;BLACK STAR;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 2606;WHITE STAR;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;

Well, those are usually symmetric, so adding a mirror property wouldn't
change much.

> In a Hebrew context you'd just choose the star you wanted (black-white vs white-black) and use it.

That works well if the text is written by hand. If it is produced as
part of a script that better work the same for many languages, symmetric
swapping would really be very helpful.

Regards, Martin.

> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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