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Re: Usable arabic font



Michelle : I live in Casabanca,


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:50:29 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli
<shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > 1- Test tahoma, you'll be sure that it persuades that it's possible to
> > have a good arabic font
> > 2- Test ClearU, ugly gnu font but proportional to latin characters
> > 3- Test Roya, looks like a less simplified Tahoma, good, but not
> > proportional latin characters
> > 4- Install Fontforge, play with it.
> > 5- I am ready to make an easy to read lightweight arabic-latin font
> > based on the good gnu fonts ( roya, kacst, arabeyes, farsi ...), are
> > you ready to help me ?
> 
> Do make sure to test thoroughly any and all fonts you produce (it is
> not simply encodings and glyphs/characters - various tables need to
> be updated (GSUB, etc)).  It would be best to talk about this on the
> 'general' list as this directly relates to the 'khotot' project.
> 
> BTW: Keep up the great work, the more font expertise we have the better !!
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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