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Re: Usable arabic font
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Usable arabic font
- From: Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:44:24 +0000
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السلام عليكم
I am using Mandrakelinux cooker. It uses Sans as the default but this
time they added hebrew and arabic to it , it's very easy to read ( it
looks like MS tahoma)
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:11:10 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli
<shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > Which arabic font do you think is the most suitable for the desktop ?
>
> That would be completely upto you - different people have different
> taste :-) You can get an idea of what the fonts look like by looking
> at the various 'collages' noted on the Khotot project page [1].
>
> > Why are open source arabic fonts smaller than latin characters ?
>
> They shouldn't be too dramatic - but since we don't have font experts
> to fix these issues we will simply have to hold on to what we have.
> Chances are the latin fonts were simply added post fact with no regard
> to what the Arabic proportionality really is to simply get it to work
> (I myself would be rather guilty of that :-)
>
> So if you know anyone into fonts and is seriously looking to help, I'd
> love to talk to them.
>
> [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot
>
> Salam.
>
> - Nadim
>
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