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1. You forgot to add the line-height factor which many websites including The Daily Times, Dawn et al. overlook as well for some inexplicable reasons. For longer posts, there”s hardly any incentive or encouragement without proper line-height.

2. Ejaz really it breaks my heart to see people writing in urdu and using lucida console as the main font. What value we should use with the line-height? 2em looks good but then since we are using larger font sizes I think we should let the browser calculate it automatically otherwise posts will become longer and it would require more scrolling. What you suggest?

3. Line-height as you know is a relative term and should be used in accordance with the fonts you’re using. In urdu it becomes slightly confusing unless you’re (and you should be) using a lot of classes to create the differentiators. Yes the content will become bigger because there’s larger gap but unfortunately those designers who review the multi-lingual sites do so based on the face-value without going through the text for more than five minutes. If it wasn’t the case, Dawn will reduce it’s min-width of news story pages as well as increase the line-height. For me, the safe passage lies somewhere at 1.67 – 1.85em.

   The bigger difference that’s created can be understood from the established examples and principles of design itself. While you, as a urdu reader, can make out most of the text even though it looks BLOCK instead of BLOG (‘kaf’ and gaf difference) as you proceed and read ahead, the user-affordance and readibility becomes fatigued and he’s only as good to go till two or three paragraphs.
   And I feel you have to use this technique unless there are better urdu fonts with perfect smooth-anti aliasing for better readability. It’s been quite a while I touched this topic but from the surface it looks the same ol’ issues. Even if the font in english is "cursive’ in nature, it still is tolerable and understandable because of the smooth edges as compared with the otherwise nicely scripted urdu font which has rough and hard edges making it harder to read for long.
   And it really is a shame that unlike many ubiquitous english fonts developed for screen don’t specifically look better at higher sizes, urdu fonts show the characteristis otherwise. e.g. look at your heading vs. body text 🙂

4. oh and you might want to change the left-hand scroll to the standard right hand unless you have to be extreme puritan who’d fight to the end to promote urdu in the strictest and most orthodox way and can force more and more people to adopt some of the idiosyncracies of urdu language.

5. ejaz I totally agree with your arguments. thats why each day I am reducing the length of my posts .

   I also try to make more paragraphs and provide more free space with line breaks and lists.

   headings were made larger to take advantage of Urdu font’s ability to appear nicer in large size. Also many users having problem with normal font sizes in paragraphs and x-large for urdu fonts is just not large enough.

   thank you for explaining the importance of line height

6. lol no I am not at all puritan in these matters. Actually I use linux with firefox and I don’t see pages changing the direction of the scrollbar automatically. Internet Explorer does this. You are right it should be fixed and it will be in a day or two.

7. I am glad you took it as a humor only. Understanding dry humor is as rare these days as comprehending an anchor person’s straight questions. For reference, please view repeated telecast of yesterday’s "Live With Talat”.

8. جناب آپ کیا حکیم سنیاسی باوا ہوگئے ہیں جو نام بھی صیغہ رازمیں رکھا جائے گا؟
   یہ کوئی اتنا “خفیہ“ قسم کا کام تو نہیں۔۔۔
   خیر بات یہ کرنا تھی کہ اردو ٹیک ڈاٹ کوم پر قدیر، بدتمیز، محب علوی وغیرہم لوگ آج کل ورڈپریس کے تھیم اردوا رہے ہیں۔ ساتھ ورڈپریس کی فری ہوسٹنگ سروس شروع کررہے ہیں۔ مزید یہ کہ ورڈپریس کو اردو کرنے کی کوشش فرمارہے ہیں۔ چناچہ آپ ذرا وہاں تشریف لائیں اور مدد فرمائیں۔
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