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Re: Arabic fonts & XFree86
- To: Markus Kuhn <Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Arabic fonts & XFree86
- From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:09:22 +0330 (IRT)
- Cc: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>, <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Markus,
All the Arabic characters are already in the 10x20 font. And I will try my
hand at other sizes as soon as I can find a time. But what Nadim's talking
about is the U+3000 limit in XFree86 core fonts, which is very painful for
Arabic. We need a mechanism for supporting the Arabic Presentation Forms
soon.
BTW, what about the subsetting syntax you told in i18n at xfree86, specifying
glyph ranges with the fonts name? Do you think that will be easy to
implement? Arabeyes people may have the time...
roozbeh
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> You are very welcome to contribute the necessary glyphs to 10x20 or find
> someone who has the time to draw these. I personally am not familiar
> enough with the Arabic script to do this. All you need is to install the
> xmbdfed software. You will find further information on how to contribute
> glyphs in
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
>
> Roozbeh? Would you perhaps have the time to have a go at the Form-B part
> in the foreseeable future?