Arabic Fonts Issues (was Re: [Saudi Linux] Prayer time)

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Friday 21 November 2003 15:27, Mohammed Yousif wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:46:12 -0800 Mohamed Alkanhal <alkanhal at kacst dot
> edu dot sa>
>
> wrote:
> >      Regarding the Quran project, What fonts you are using? KACST
> >can help
> >on the fonts as we have a font designer. Also, one of our latest
> >font
> >releases has a nice font that can be used for AlQuran Alkareem.

I want to repeat part of what I have said in the Re: Open Issues & Todos here 
so to make sure every one involved has seen it.

+ Some characters are missing from Urdu Nastaliq Unicode, e.g. ALEF WITH HAMZA 
ABOVE (U+0623), YEH (U+064A), TEH MARBUTA (U+0629), ALEF MAKSURA (U+649), ... 
This font is a good font IMHO that worth looking at, and should be added to 
the khotot project.
+ Tashkeels (diacritics) should be consistent with the font. It's illogical to 
have The same diacritics dimensions for kacstposter and kacstdecorative as 
the ones for kacst-qr!!
+ The size of the kacst-qr font should be enlarge to conform with the other 
kacst font series. Now kacst-qr font is very small. In other words kacst-qr 
size 14 is much smaller than any Arabic font size 14. This has cause a 
problem in Mandrake for example because developers there can't go and test 
each font size separately for each language.

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