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Re: Re: Unicode Font Maker

Thanks Mete for the clarification. I do understand it that way, but
others who are reading this might got confused. Anyway, I've sent a
PDF file to Thomas showing my font's features, so I think he
understand what I mean.

Regards.

On 8/3/05, Mete Kural <metek at touchtonecorp dot com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> 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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