On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:24:43PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:04:21AM +0100, Bokverket wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a publisher and I have been looking for some time for an Arabic font to > > publish texts for beginning learners of Arabic, for example a beginner's > > Swedish--Arabic--Swedish dictionary. These have to be fully vocalized and > > easily readable -- like when you yourselves started to write :-) The > > previous free fonts that I have checked do a horrible job with the > > diacritics, as I am sure you know. > > > I'd suggest SIL's Scheherazade font[1] for you, or our Simplified Naskh > font[2] which is based on the previous font, but addresses some issues > in it, basically Simplified Naskh has larger glyphs and replaces some > incorrect glyphs in Scheherazade font with correct one, though it is not > released yet as there are few fixes that I want to do before an official > release. > Sorry, I forgot the links 1. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ArabicFonts_Download 2. http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/pub/SimplifiedNaskh.ttf -- Khaled
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