Re: KACST font (was Useful info for The Quran Project)

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

في 11:27 م ثلاثاء 01 ابريل 2003، كتبت:
> Very nice, I am happy to see the Kacstqr font. It looks nice. It seems this
> package has replaced the old one with more polished, less size Arabic
> fonts.
>
> I tried it for five minutes only but could find many inconsistencies. I
> will mention two now.
> If you write
> أراد
> you will notice the Alef and Dal is so close together which is not
> beautiful at all.
> Anothor issue is if you write the same word in kate or kwrite (in Kword
> it's Ok) the Alef won't appear which is serious enough. I confirmed it's
> not a kde issue because your Kacstqura is Ok but Kacstqr has this problem.
Now I figured out why this has happened. I mean why didn't the Alef appear in Kate. It turned out to be the size of the font.
If font-size <= 18, the ALEF will be rendered as a HAMZA.
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Munzir Taha,
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Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW),
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