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

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Monday 24 November 2003 22:17, Munzir Taha wrote:
> 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.

 I'm adding my voice to yours. KacstQr is indeed very small that I have to
 modify the font size each time I switch the font in QtQuran for example
 which is very really annoying and inconvenient.
 
 Please Please Please, reply to my previous email as it's really critical.

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
We _will_ restore OUR Jerusalem.