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Re: Arabic Fonts Issues (was Re: [Saudi Linux] Prayer time)
- To: Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>, Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>, Mohamed Alkanhal <alkanhal at kacst dot edu dot sa>, alharthi at kacst dot edu dot sa, Fayez Alhargan <alhargan at kacst dot edu dot sa>, General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Arabic Fonts Issues (was Re: [Saudi Linux] Prayer time)
- From: "Mohamed Alkanhal" <alkanhal at kacst dot edu dot sa>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:41:05 +0300 (AST)
- Cc:
Dear All,
Thanks for your comments. I will discuss these issues with our font
designer next week when we return from our Eid holiday InShaAllah. We
will keep you updated. Thanks.
- Mohamed
> 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.
>
>
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