[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#577254: ttf-arabeyes: Wrong width of diacritics in some fonts

[Thamer Mahmoud]

Package: ttf-arabeyes
Version: 2.0-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

While using a Xft-enabled Emacs23, I noticed that some fonts included
in this package have "wide" Arabic diacritics, almost taking up the
whole line. I did some testing, and I think that this problem is
caused by the large values of width of diacritics used in some of
these fonts.

You can verify this by running:

xfd -fa metal

Notice that the width of ARABIC DAMMA is shown to be 584 or more,
whereas other Arabic fonts have a width for DAMMA between 0-10 (this
goes for Alarabyia, Granada, and fonts in ttf-farsiweb -- all working
fine under Emacs).

The following is a list of the fonts affected:

khalid
almohanad
metal
arab
cortoba
sindbad
mashq
alyarmook
rehan
furat
alhor
nagham
rasheeq
salem
sharjah
nada
graph
shado
ostorah
kayrawan
tarablus
almateen
petra

Regards,
Thamer

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