Re: Mandrake's issues

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 01:03, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > What is required here is someone that is aware of the requirements
> > that is able to read/modify/write font files - or at a min someone
> > that can mail me the appropriate glyphs to include (all of them).
> > The Khotot project has all its files on CVS, so it should be
> > painless to do this given working examples out there to look at.
> > 
> > Any Farsi/Urdu knowledge on the list ?
> 
> I agree Nadim, there are about four glyphs required for each of those
> missing characters, which makes the matter a little hard. Also, most of
> the those fonts do not really look beautiful to a Persian or Urdu
> reader.
> 
> BTW, we (FarsiWeb) are working on our Persian fonts, which we will
> release soon, some as GPL, some with a license like Bitstream Vera.

Roozbeh (et al), do please look over Arabeyes' Khotot project and fonts
and see if you can include the required Farsi fonts for completion (in
similar style per font).

  http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot

Salam.

 - Nadim


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