Lucida Sans Unicode & Hebrew Hyphen Maqaf

[Erwin Denissen]

 > I have version 5.01 of Lucida Sans Unicode, April 15, 1993; I’m not sure
 > whether the difference matters.

Sorry about the confusion; I also have 5.01.

 > I tend to agree. Looking at U+05BE in Lucida Sans Unicode in the OTM
 > Light font inspector, I see ADW (advance width) as 0. This is of course
 > a bug in the font, and it causes the character to be overprinted on the
 > preceding character. When it is beth, you don’t really see it.

Actually the AW is 862, but since the glyph is set as being a mark, it 
is forced to zero.

You can clearly see (and fix) this in a font editor.

Best regards,

Erwin Denissen

High-Logic
http://www.high-logic.com/


On 04-May-22 7:12 PM, Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode wrote:
> Erwin Denissen via Unicode (unicode at corp.unicode.org 
> <mailto:unicode at corp.unicode.org>) kirjoitti:
> 
> 
>     I have version 5.10 updated March 3, 2017.
> 
> 
> I have version 5.01 of Lucida Sans Unicode, April 15, 1993; I’m not sure 
> whether the difference matters.
> 
> 
>     maqaf-hebr is placed over bet-hebr (you see it when you use a large
>     font
>     size) as it is defined as mark in the font while it should be a base.
> 
> 
> I tend to agree. Looking at U+05BE in Lucida Sans Unicode in the OTM 
> Light font inspector, I see ADW (advance width) as 0. This is of course 
> a bug in the font, and it causes the character to be overprinted on the 
> preceding character. When it is beth, you don’t really see it.
> 
> Yucca, http://jkorpela.fi <http://jkorpela.fi>
>