On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:39:06AM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > OK - one _very_ experienced calligrapher > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hassan.massoudy/ > Wow.. he did the cover for a Khalil Gibran book ;) > Says he wants to help. He wants the words to calligraphy noted > exactly in arabic (I'm assuming in CP-1256) which is no big, I > can do that (iconv to the rescue :-). But the question I'm posing > (for a final time) is what do we want it to be. > > My vote is the following, > > 1. 3arabayz (in arabic) Yes. > 2. Arabeyes.org (in english but done in arabic calligraphy) Nice extra to have around. > 3. 3ain al-arab (in arabic - I don't like this since it has nothing > to do with the URL to our website - the idea is to get > people to see the logo, read it and say ah, ok thats > a website). I would have wanted to add ".org" to > option 1 above, but that would be too weird I guess. No ;) > > I want to send this out ASAP to get it done with - any comments ? > You can tell him that he can put a .org next to it or not, let him be the judge of it. I think he can tell if something looks appropriate or not. But in all cases, it is not #3. Suggest to him that we wouldn't mind another one in English (#2) if he feels like it, but it would be a luxury item. later -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| ------------------------------------------------------- --- Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=elzubeir
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