Created attachment 136712 [details] kashidas appear in red and period in green disappears steps 1. open attachment 132839 [details] 2. zoom in to 310 percent and notice kashida's appearing in various places and notice periods disappearing regression as this doesnt happen in 5.3.7. Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a2a3e06a29077d4274dc15eea28a01afe22e3658 CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Regression introduced by: author Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk> 2017-03-30 07:27:45 (GMT) committer Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk> 2017-03-30 10:19:02 (GMT) commit 38b0c24fa5cbb4246e03d77ac022dfdc9fdede03 (patch) tree 6c500a9f343126a28508aaa2adc581d819a2eb96 parent a82627aa787e80c9473453acd5ec955b6cf265ff (diff) Related: tdf#105454 DOCX import: fix unwanted enabled-by-default kerning Similar to DOC, DOCX doesn't enable kerning by default. Bisected with: bibisect-linux-64-5.4 Adding Cc: to Miklos Vajna
I would argue this worked only by accident before. See bug 105454, DOC/DOCX does not enable kerning by default, enabling it by default for those documents in Writer was a bug that caused real problems. If this change causes problems for Kashida, then it's just a coincidence that it worked previously. Somebody who understands complex text layout should find out how Word manages to handle that without kerning and based on that what we could do to improve the situation. What do you think? I'm OK with looking at this at some stage, but I think "real" regressions are a priority.
Lets ask Khaled as he knows best about CTL and font rendering.
Kashida in LibreOffice is fundamentally broken: // A note on how Kashida justification is implemented (because it took me 5 // years to figure it out): // The decision to insert Kashidas, where and how much is taken by Writer. // This decision is communicated to us in a very indirect way; by increasing // the width of the character after which Kashidas should be inserted by the // desired amount. // // Writer eventually calls IsKashidaPosValid() to check whether it can insert a // Kashida between two characters or not. // // Here we do: // - In LayoutText() set KashidaJustification flag based on text script. // - In ApplyDXArray(): // * Check the above flag to decide whether to insert Kashidas or not. // * For any RTL glyph that has DX adjustment, insert enough Kashidas to // fill in the added space. from https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=blob;f=vcl/source/gdi/CommonSalLayout.cxx;h=8e8565717932088558ee7a4b31fc0bfe405e98e3;hb=HEAD#l698 The insanity described above together with the the whole DX array madness and the use of integers to hold glyph positions, makes is so that any rounding errors would cause VCL to think that writer wants to insert a kashida in this place. Fixing kashida once and for all requires 1) making the communication between Writer and VCL explicit e.g. have a separate “kashida insertion points” array 2) Kill DX array for good and enter the 21 century (it is an API “inspired” by Windows 3.1 3) Fix rounding errors by preserving fractional glyph positions in a way or another.
Thanks for the input, Khaled. None of the stuff you mention is introduced by the above commit, so let me re-tag this from regression to implementationError.
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Can see the artifacts at 310% and 490% in: Version: 7.2.7.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 8d71d29d553c0f7dcbfa38fbfda25ee34cce99a2 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded But they are already gone in: Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: e114eadc50a9ff8d8c8a0567d6da8f454beeb84f CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Not sure if there was an earlier fix? In any case, verified fixed in 7.5: Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: da3dd48eaf9086f8ab28d6a6655f9a638e51433a CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded