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Re: [general] Fwd: Khotot - Arabic fonts

To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Subject: Re: [general] Fwd: Khotot - Arabic fonts
From: Sabine Emmy Eller <s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 19:06:05 +0200
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Dear Khaled,

thank you for your info. Ambaradan is a completely free project and the fonts are distributed together with the software, therefore only free fonts can be used. At this stage I would say our only possibility is to use Scheherazade by SIL.

Today I finished the first step on our langauge list with a txt file where I will start to annotate modifications and notes. I would like to keep Arabeyes.org as reference point for Arabic scripts. I don't know if we really can be of help, but at least we can try to give some more visibility.

Regards, Sabine

I hope that sooner or later

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:

Currently, Arabeyes fonts covers only basic Arabic code point (i.e.
Arabic language only, no Persian etc. nor special Quranic marks). I
wouldn't suggest Arabeyes fonts for any serious work, ironically I'm the
maintainer of it, the fonts are of poor quality and generally decorative
fonts not for running text. If you can afford buying commercial fonts,
I'd suggest one of Linotype fonts (Lotus is the standard font for books
nowadays, Yakout used to be the standard newspaper's font, and still
used by many newspapers). For free fonts, SIL's Scheherazade is a good
font, and covers virtually all languages written in Arabic script, but
it has some aesthetically poor aspects.

We have some projects for high quality fonts for print, but still work
in progress and it is too early to say when it'll be ready.

Regards,
�Khaled

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