Re: Useful info for The Quran Project

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

> What would such a project involve, what kind of 
> skills, time, you are looking for!? not that I am
> free to pursue it, but I am highly interested in
> things that are done right,and I am sure there will 
> be others that share this with me.

Such a project would have two parts:
1) Developing the font(s) according to a set of proper
encoding rules
2) Encoding the Quran text based on the encoding rules
that were specified in step 1

Step 1 requires a lot of knowledge of smart font
technologies like OpenType and also a thorough
knowledge of the orthographic properties of the Arabic
language. This is where "experts" are needed.

For step 2, you don't need to be an "expert" of font
technology or Arabic. In fact you don't even need to
know Arabic. This step could be divided into two
groups of people.

1) A group of typers who will type the Quran into the
computer.
2) A group of reviewers who will review what the
typers typed and report their mistakes back to them.

I would like to ask who would be interested in
contributing to such a project. If you have interest
please email me. You don't need to make a commitment
or anything, just pure interest in this kind of a
project.

Should I count you as interested Walid?

Thank you very much and regards,
Mete

--- Walid Shaari <shaari at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 18:28, Mete Kural wrote:
> > Salaamun Aleykum,
> 
> > It is necessary to not use allographs in the
> encoded
> > text in order to have a text that is highly
> useful.
> > Say you are searching for a word in the Quran and
> you
> > use a different allograph of the same grapheme in
> your
> > search query, in this case the words that have
> > different allographs of the same grapheme will not
> be
> > matched. There are also several typography related
> > problems that may come up due to the use of
> codepoints
> > for allographs in encoding a text.
> > 
> > Would any of you be willing to contribute to a
> project
> > that seeks to develop fonts that encourages the
> use of
> > graphemes only?
> > 
> > Peace,
> > Mete
> 
> Wow, I am quite impressed by the quality of these
> fonts, and how close
> they represent the Arabic calligraphy. What would
> such a project
> involve, what kind of skills, time, you are looking
> for!? not that I am
> free to pursue it, but I am highly interested in
> things that are done
> right,and I am sure there will be others that share
> this with me.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Walid.
> 
> P.S: I didn't look yet what graphemes, allographs
> means!!, but
> definitely graphemes do impress people ;) 
> 
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