[xep-support] Vowel positioning in Hebrew text

[Teus Benschop]

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply. The reason for using part of the first verse of 
Genesis is because that was where we first spotted it, as we're 
developing Bible translation software, and hence we work with nothing 
but sacred text.

But to me it seems that as biblical Hebrew is in the Unicode sphere, 
that XEP should implement it too, without paying a lot of money to the 
sales department of RenderX.

I hope RenderX people can do something about it.

Regards,

Teus.

David Tolpin wrote:
>>
>> Hebrew text with vowels have a problem in XEP. The vowels do not 
>> position properly in the .pdf produced.
>>
>> Four pictures have been attached, three of which show how the vowels 
>> ought to be positioned: Gtk, OpenOffice and Firefox. The picture 
>> xep.gif shows the vowels out of position.
>>
>> Is there anything to do about that? If it's a bug I am hereby 
>> reporting it and look forward to a fix.
>
> Hi Teus,
>
> XEP does not implement composition of Hebrew presentation forms. This 
> is a feature not needed for modern Hebrew texts, since vocalization is 
> normally only used in biblical Hebrew. If you need this feature 
> supported, you can ask the marketing and sales department of RenderX 
> to implement it as a custom job. Alternatively, you can use a 
> preprocessing tool to compose glyphs.
>
> Please also don't used sacred texts as examples of bad typography. 
> Your example is the first three words from Breishit, the Book of Genesis.
>
> David
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