Post #4439499
2026-07-10 07:14 UTC
@pixelambacht@typo.social It can be a pain in Nastaliq when you want to kern across the space. CoreText assumes that the space is not going to change advance width and just uses it everywhere, instead of looking at the results of shaping.
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@pixelambacht@typo.social 2026-07-10 07:24
@simoncozens@typo.social Do you know why? Someone once made the deliberate decision to make an exception for the space character. And, I assume, another exception on top of that for monospace fonts as those space chars seem to match the font metrics...
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@nedley@pdx.social 2026-07-10 15:41
@simoncozens@typo.social @pixelambacht@typo.social It’s not an assumption made by CoreText, the font works fine in e.g. TextEdit.