Re: How to get the connected forms of Syriac Letters?

[Fabian Rieger]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote
> I use something like this in my .emacs with Emacs 24.4.1 on Debian
> Jessie:
>
>     ;; Tell Emacs to actually use shaping for Syriac (via m17n).
>     ;; \u0700-\u074F: Syriac
>     ;; \u0640: TATWEEL
>     ;; \u200D: ZWJ
>     (set-char-table-range
>      composition-function-table
>      '(?\u0700 . ?\u074F)
>      (list ["[\u0700-\u074F\u0640\u200D]+" 0 font-shape-gstring]))
>
>     (defun benny-setup-fonts (frame)
>       (set-fontset-font t (?\u0700 . ?\u074F) "Serto Mardin 16" frame))
>
>     ;; Run font setup whenever a new frame is constructed.
>     (add-to-list 'after-make-frame-functions 'benny-setup-fonts)
>
>     ;; Run font setup now if we already have a frame.
>     (let ((frame (selected-frame)))
>       (if frame (benny-setup-fonts frame)))

Hi Benny,

that solved the problem. I just had to replace

   (set-fontset-font t (?\u0700 . ?\u074F) ...

with

   (set-fontset-font t (cons (decode-char 'ucs ?\x0700)
                             (decode-char 'ucs ?\x074F) ...

(The reason for this maybe I'll try to understand next week ...)
and now Syriac really looks fine.

Thanks for your help.

Fabian