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authorElOraiby <wael.eloraiby@gmail.com>2015-05-30 23:10:46 -0400
committerElOraiby <wael.eloraiby@gmail.com>2015-05-30 23:10:46 -0400
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It's worthy to note that this is far more lightweight than HarfBuzz (used by Qt/Pango...).
Freetype 2 on the other hand lacks this functionality.
+<U><B>Details:</B></U>
+Arabic letters have 4 forms: Isolated, Initial, Medial and Ending. An arabic letter will have one of these forms depending on the letters preceding and succeeding it: For instance take the letter ﺡ : This is the isolated form (i.e. nothing precedes nor succeeds it), if it comes at the start of a syllable it will have the initial form ( ﺣ ). If it ends a syllable it will have the ending form ( ﺢ ) and if it is in the middle of a syllable it will have the medial form ( ﺤ ). Some even have more complicated ligature forms (such as Lam and Alef together: ﻻ ) . A utf8 arabic string usually only comprises of isolated letters from [Arabic Unicode Block](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_%28Unicode_block%29). With this library you will transform it to the rendering/presentation form: [Arabic Presentation Forms B](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Presentation_Forms-B)
-Example ([Khalil Gibran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran)'s Al-Nay):
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+<U><B>Example ([Khalil Gibran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran)'s Al-Nay):</B></U>
![ScreenShot](https://raw.github.com/eloraiby/arabtype/master/example.png)