Arabic Diacritics move to unwanted places if you use an Index Marker in the same line
Adobe InDesign CC 14.0 (Middle Eastern version -- English يدعم العربية)
a. Type this Arabic text: شَيْء غريب
b. Create new Index entry for the second word: غريب
The Diacritics should stay as they were.
Diacritic of the second letter (يْ) goes somewhere else.
Ali H.
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Chris
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I've seen this problem with: Myriad Arabic (various weights), InDesign from CC2015 to CC2021, and with lines of text in Arabic that have any of:
- index marker
- anchord object marker
- are a footnote
It affects placement of the various dots, hamza etc (diacritical marks in European terms).
The problem disappears if you can move those markers to the beginning of the text line. It also disappears if you remove the marker (obviously not always an option).
I was able to work around the problem in a footnote by starting the text with a soft return and then setting the leading there and on the next line to nothing at all, bringing the text back in line with the footnote number.
Please fix it, as it occurs only rarely and it takes me half an hour to remember that I've seen the problem before somewhere! -
Mira
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Adobe - any update on this; this is also caused by Achored Frame...
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[Deleted User]
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This bug also occurs after insert the index.
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[Deleted User]
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Hi. I have this problem too. if insert more than 10 footnote in one page, this problem It happens again.
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Hassaan Abdur Razzaaq commented
Also happens with footnotes and some special characters. RTL fonts with OpenType features are generally very buggy in InDesign. Even popular fonts like Traditional Arabic are almost unusable with diacritics. The Quranic fonts from nashr.qurancomplex.gov.sa also don't work.
These bugs have been around for more than half a decade. The Middle-Eastern features don't seem to have been touched since the days of WinSoft.