Re: Sequential Fathatan Final Form (Items 9 and 10)

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

> > On Windows you have uniscribe to do the job if the
> > programmer  accepts
> > default substitution behaviour. Is your solution
> > only for those willing to
> > pay the MS tax to view qur'aan;-)?
>
> No, of course not. OpenType is meant to be a
> cross-platform font format. This means that you can
> take the specification and implement it on any
> platform you wish. This Indian Linux group claims that
> they have succeeded in supporting OpenType on Linux,
> maybe you might want to contact them and ask for their
> help:
> http://www.ncst.ernet.in/projects/indix/technical_details.shtml

That means that there is an Indian group that has already created the
conditions or environment that you need. After all, if it works with Nagari
scripts, which heavily depend on complex glyph substitutions, it will
certainly work with Arabic.

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