Timeline for How to modify/bypass Arabic script/texts rules/settings in order to break words after right-joining letters?
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| Apr 22, 2022 at 4:17 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 21, 2022 at 22:31 | answer | added | TarekBSA | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 21, 2022 at 13:40 | comment | added | Raymond Chen | Zero width space (U+200B) seems to work to allow a line break, though it may mess up ligatures. (I don't read Arabic.) | |
| Apr 21, 2022 at 8:17 | comment | added | Yuri Khristich | Probably Adobe Illustrator is not the best choice for this task. As far as I can tell Adobe InDesign can handle such tasks much better. In InDesign you can turn off hyphenation, set discretionary hyphen after any letter and get the desired hyphenations any time (not like in Illustrator where discretionary dashes are ignored as soon as you turn off the hyphenation checkbox). For example you can prepare the text parts of the work in InDesign and export these text blocks as EPS images. Actually, whenever you need to deal with a large amount of text/pages you have to consider to avoid Illustrator | |
| Apr 21, 2022 at 7:03 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | What you are looking is called "text segmentation", but I'm not sure you can tweak it for old style. Probably you should program it yourself. Or check other Unicode libraries (Uniscribe is one of shaper libraries probably it can do also segmentation, but there are much more). | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:29 | history | asked | TarekBSA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |