Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

Mete Kural wrote:

> Another nice program to use that shows Unicode codepoints
> automatically as you edit is UniPad: http://www.unipad.org/main/
And I also realized that there is another, graphical method to 
edit/verify the underlying text data.  That is for Meor to create a 
"proofreading" font by copying his Quranic font and changing the mapping 
tables to make the mapping transparent.  I.e., so that each visible mark 
is produced by exactly one codepoint in the underlying textual data. 
Then, for example, if you see a low small meem in the rendered display, 
you know that it corresponds to exactly one <low small meem> in the text 
stream.  Conversely, every <low small meem> in the text stream produces 
exactly one low small meem glyph and nothing else.

A proofreading version of the font might make for a somewhat ugly 
display, but for proofreading purposes that is ok.  Once the text is 
certified, one would use the fancy font to get proper rendering.

-gregg