Re: Re: Unicode Font Maker

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

Here I have to interject and mention that we may be understanding different things from the term ligature. When Meor says that he does not use a single ligature in his font he means that anything that looks like a ligature rendered with his font is actually a composite of letterforms binded together to look like a ligature. So rather than using one static lam-alef glyph he uses two seperate letterforms each for one half of the lam-alef "ligature", the same way SIL fonts are designed. This way you can color them seperately. From what I understand when Tom mentions ligatures he is referring to its more general meaning in typography rather than this more narrow meaning of it as glyphs packaged within a computer font file. Right, Tom?

-Mete

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From: Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date:  Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:06:34 +0800

>So it seems that I misunderstood you ealier mail... Sorry for that.
>
>> 
>> I am strongly in favour of ligatures, but against malfunctioning or
>> incomplete ligatures. Hence my somewhat sarcastic comment.
>> 
>
>Anyway, I still don't quite get what you mean by saying the font it a
>tremendous improvement over MS "Arabic Typesetting" font? Is it
>because of it's feature, or it's look? I have to agree, that the look
>of Arabic Typesetting is not that great, but it does have more feature
>compare to those fonts by SIL.
>
>I've sent to you a PDF file showing the font that I'm working on,
>basically without using a single ligature (I use different colors for
>each glyph just  to prove my point) and yet this preserved most
>alternate glpyh style (still not complete yet, but not sure how to
>further). S, what do you say about it? Of course , the font face is
>taken directly from the actual Madinah mushaf.
>
>Do you have ideas on arabic justification that you don't mind sharing with us?
>
>Regards.
>
>

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