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Re: Arabic issues in GNU Freefont
- To: Steve White <stevan dot white at googlemail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Arabic issues in GNU Freefont
- From: Mohammed Adnčne Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:19:17 +0100
- Cc: doc at arabeyes dot org
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Steve White wrote:
> Adnčne (and ArabEyes folks),
Hi! (I am subscribed to doc at arabeyes dot org)
> I have made a new release of GNU FreeFont. It contains changes to the
> Arabic script, that I think make it usable for display of text.
Great!
> Download it at
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/
Please could you generate a PNG picture of a sample sentence in Arabic
so that we can tell you without needing to download and install the
font? (I use a Linux distribution, so I just apt-get upgrade when
needed)
> I also added tables for the alif-lam ligatures and the positional
> replacements required by Arabic.
>
> Let me know what you think!
Thanks for your work on the Arabic glyphs :)
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Mohammed Adnčne Trojette