Re: Hats on YUD, VAV, and NUN sufit in DejaVU

Hi Dov,
Don't know what a roof is. Can you provide images?

  - yba


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:20:02 +0300
> From: Dov Grobgeld <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Ivrix Discussions <[email protected]>
> To: Ivrix Discussions <[email protected]>
> Subject: Hats on YUD, VAV, and NUN sufit in DejaVU
> 
> Hello all,
>
> This is probably not the right forum, but I thought that I would raise
> it here anyhow in lack of a better place.
>
> As you might have seen DejaVu Sans now includes Hebrew glyphs. These
> look great in my system (especially since I was never able to
> configure fontconfig for Hebrew to my liking), but there are a couple
> of problem/questions:
>
> The main problem, imo, is that the YUD does not have a roof in the
> font, but the VAV and the NUN-SUFIT do. In my opinion this is
> inconsistent, and I filed a bug report to that extent:
>
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8145
>
> I got no response to that bug report and I am considering getting cvs
> access and just do the change myself. But I would like to hear some
> others opinions on the matter before I do.
>
> There are some other problems with nikud that are too close to the
> base characters, but these can wait.
>
> Looking forward to hearing some more opinions on the matter,
> Dov
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