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Re: Usable arabic font
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Usable arabic font
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:50:29 -0800 (PST)
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--- Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> 1- Test tahoma, you'll be sure that it persuades that it's possible to
> have a good arabic font
> 2- Test ClearU, ugly gnu font but proportional to latin characters
> 3- Test Roya, looks like a less simplified Tahoma, good, but not
> proportional latin characters
> 4- Install Fontforge, play with it.
> 5- I am ready to make an easy to read lightweight arabic-latin font
> based on the good gnu fonts ( roya, kacst, arabeyes, farsi ...), are
> you ready to help me ?
Do make sure to test thoroughly any and all fonts you produce (it is
not simply encodings and glyphs/characters - various tables need to
be updated (GSUB, etc)). It would be best to talk about this on the
'general' list as this directly relates to the 'khotot' project.
BTW: Keep up the great work, the more font expertise we have the better !!
Salam.
- Nadim
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