Re: Re: Hebrew tutorial

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> [2010-08-07 12:57 +0300]:

>> 3. Please use the Hebrew Maqaf instead of hyphen.
>
>I tried that, but the results look ugly, at least on MS-Windows: the
>Maqaf is composed with the preceding character and almost entirely
>blends with it as result of this composition.  Is this something
>specific to the Windows Uniscribe engine?  Is this an Emacs bug?

I think this is a (new) bug. I can see it on Linux/X, and it was
working fine until about a month ago. I reported it on the emacs-devel
list.

In principle Yair is right - in Hebrew maqaf is used to join words,
not a hyphen.