Re: Re: Unicode Font Maker

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

When I use the word ligature, I mean the final visual output, not the
underlying technology to accomplish this. Ideally, the user needn't be aware
of what's under the hood. But. as you indicated, old-fashioned hot metal
based metafors still survive well into the age of computing, and with it the
bizarre problem that separate allographs cannot be coloured. Meor's
workaround is to drop all visual mergers that are based on single glyphs
under the hood. I suppose he cut up the lam-alef ligature into two halves.

t

Mete Kural 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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>> Mete Kural
>> Touchtone Corporation
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