Re: Quran - fonts

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Adil Allawi <adil diwan com> wrote:
> At 7:32 am +0100 9/4/03, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> >   In return, Diwan releases their fonts (as it is today and as it will
> >   get altered post unicode adoption).  The value of your application
> >   is not in the fonts and as such Diwan retains the lion's heart of
> >   any product proceeds (it would be nice to Open-Source your products
> >   as well, but I think that conversation is a non-starter :-)
> 
> Firstly Diwan puts a great deal of effort in its fonts and it has converted
> its best fonts for use with the Quran and I cannot expect to make any of
> these open-source as these are commercial fonts which publishers are still
> buying. Secondly, the font is only part of the whole task. Just having a good
> looking font does not get you much closer to your goal.

Our goal at this instance is to increase the number of freely available
Open Source fonts - not for our benefit but for the benefit of millions
of people out there now and for many generations to come.  I understand
your reluctance and views but they seem, with all due respect, a bit
short-sighted.  In any regard, its your and your company's decision
to whether you release something or not.

Our goals are really rather genuine, we simply want to enable this
technology to all Arabs/Muslims out there so any step in that direction
(no matter how small or incomplete) is a step in the right direction.
Fonts in and by themselves are never regarded as applications, they're
an enabling means; alas, I'm going in circles :-)

If there is anything we can do to either educate or assist in the realm
of Open Source, etc - do please let us know.

Salam & Keep in touch.

 - Nadim


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