Re: Useful info for The Quran Project

["Yousef AL-Harthi" <alharthi at kacst dot edu dot sa>]

Alsalam Alikum,

King Abdul Aziz City for science and technology  release Quran font you can
take it under GPL license.

It is allow in this link:

http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/download/KacstArabicFonts-1.3.tar.gz

Best Regard

Yousef AL-Harthi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Munzir Taha" <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>
To: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Useful info for The Quran Project


> I am not sure how Mr Yousuf is proceeding in Quran project. What about the
> font? It's a long time since I've last heard about it. I even send a mail
(in
> private for good reasons) concerning a serious issue to the developers but
no
> replies yet ;-) Hope everything is Ok with you all.
>
> Now, I have passed through a nice information in the Internet and want to
> share it with you and hope you will like it.
>
> (see: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc17/a346.html)
> Encoding the Holy Koran into Unicode
>
>
> Adil Allawi - Diwan Software Limited
>
>
> Intended Audience:
> Manager, Software Engineer
>
>
> Session Level:
> Beginner
>
>
> The central document of the Muslim religion, the Koran, also represents
the
> highest standard for the representation of the Arabic language and
> typography. The text of the Koran is sacred to Muslims and as such it must
be
> encoded without any errors and in its entirety. It is for these reasons
that
> any approach in encoding the Koran fully on computers is a non-trivial
task.
> It is not possible to compromise on any details from the design of the
> typeface to the encoding of the text into Unicode. Diwan Software Limited
> have an ongoing project for the past three years to make a complete
> electronic Koran. Starting with the creation of a suitable typeface to the
> encoding of the text. The purpose of our paper will be to show how we have
> approached this subject and to demonstrate the results of our work. We
also
> wish to use the opportunity to start a discussion on how the Unicode
standard
> can best be applied to this purpose and what are its limitations.
>
>
> Our work is not just relevant to Muslims and scholars of Islamic religion.
> Although this would be reason enough for our project. But also as a key
> milestone in the development of the Unicode standard in its ability to
> accurately represent texts of all world language. The lessons we have
learnt
> from our project will also be relevant for anyone trying to accurately
render
> written texts using computers and encode such texts into Unicode. We hope
> that our presentation would also highlight these aspects.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://www.diwan.com/english/pages/inside/news/press9.htm
> Diwan and Sun Microsystems Inc. cooperate to make the Holy Koran available
on
> the Internet
>
>
>
>
> Diwan and Sun Microsystems Inc. cooperate to make the Holy Koran available
on
> the Internet.
>
> Diwan is cooperating with Sun on the next release of Sun's Java technology
to
> make the Holy Koran available in its complete form on the widest variety
of
> computer platforms via the Internet. The results of our work will be
> demonstrated on the Sun Microsystems stand at GITEX 2000 in Dubai from
28th
> October to 1st November.
>
> Diwan announced at the 17th Unicode conference the completion of their
> encoding of the Holy Koran into Unicode together with a typeface capable
of
> rendering all the calligraphy of hand-written Korans. This project for the
> first time bridges the gap between hand-drawn Korans and computer
typography.
>
> Unicode has made it possible for the first time to encode the Holy Koran
with
> all its correct marks and annotations. Diwan has completed a family of
> intelligent typefaces which are capable of rendering the Holy Koran
> automatically from the plain text of the encoding. Based on the
award-winning
> Mishafi font, Diwan's typeface fully supports the long held traditions,
> especially those of Hafs ibn Sulaiman al-Kufi and other well known
> authorities, of encoding the Koran.
>
> Using the features of the forthcoming Java version 1.4 it has become
possible
> to make the text of the Holy Koran work on nearly all computer platforms
> regardless of built-in support for Arabic. Diwan has worked with Sun to
make
> sure the text engine built into Java 1.4 supports the features necessary
for
> Diwan's typeface to render the Koran encoding correctly. Diwan will also
work
> with Sun on future enhancements to their Java text support to allow for
more
> advanced typographic features.
>
> Diwan has created an applet that contains our Koranic typeface and
components
> of Diwan's al-Nashir al-Sahafi desktop publishing application. The applet
> will read the text of the Koran as Unicode from a database server and
display
> it correctly formatted on the client's computer. As the applet is built on
> Sun's Java technology it will run immediately on any platform that has a
Java
> 1.4 Runtime. The applet and the database are hosted on one of Sun's
high-end
> servers which provides the necessary power to make the text available to
> millions of subscribers via the Internet. Diwan will be showing this
system
> at the Sun Microsystems stand at GITEX 2000.
>
> "Sun Microsystems is delighted to welcome Diwan Software Limited onto its
> stand at GITEX, and is proud to learn that Sun's Java technology is being
> utilized by Diwan to provide access to the Holy Koran on the majority of
> computer platforms and over the Internet," said Amanda Cummins, Business
> Development Manager, Sun Microsystems. Diwan Software is a strategic
member
> of the Sun Developer Connection - Sun's online community for developers
using
> the Java and Solaris platforms.
>
> Adil Allawi, technical director of Diwan Software adds: "Diwan has spent
more
> than 3 years completing the Holy Koran and a typeface capable of matching
the
> work of the best calligraphers. With Sun's Java technology this has helped
us
> realize our dream of making the full word of the Koran available
immediately
> to millions of people on all computer systems."
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> You will find a little more info at the links. I tried to find more info
but
> couldn't. Java 1.4 is still beta. Sun's site says nothing useful about
this.
> Any comments?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Munzir Taha,
> Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer,
> Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW),
> Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS),
> New Horizons Computer Learning Centers,
> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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