Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

Nadim,
I'm having problem generating the correct PDF for viewing purposes.
I've tried many times, all of them have some missing characters in the
PDF. In the actual application showing the text, it shows OK.So, it
must be a bug somewhere during the conversion to PDF. I'm using both
PrimoPDF and PDF995. Both are having the same problems.  If you have
any other method, please let me know.
The reason I did not opt for a new codepoint for sequential tanween, 
is because it will be a more complex problem to solve using opentype
and windows. I've mentioned this before. I've tried to solve this
using the codepoint suggested by Yousif (the project maintainer), but
it lead to a very complicated problem to solve. Finally, I settled
with what I've chosen and get a satisfactory results, and a clean
problem to solve. If you want a text with a seperate codepoint for the
sequential tanween, I can give it to you. However, but if you want to
develop a font for it, I won't be able to help.

Regards.

On 7/17/05, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > As for PDF, the problem is the communication between me and the site
> > provider, Mr Thariq. He's in Pakistan, and I'm in Malaysia. As we
> > know, internet link to Pakistan still have problems, thus I can't
> > update the site. (I don't have admin access yet) I will upload the PDF
> > asap. If you want me to mail it to you, let me know , then you can
> > upload it to arabeyes CVS.
> 
> Meor, send me (in-private) the PDFs -- I'm assuming there will be one per
> sura.  We can then upload the tarball to sf.net for people to download
> for proof reading and verification.
> 
> > 2. The encoding approach. I choose it because that is the easiest way
> > so that I can implement the font which will work on most platform,
> > that is MS Windows and Linux. For example, the fathatan + small low
> > meem to indicate the sequential fathatan. Why small low meem? well,
> > I've tried so many combination, and that turn's out to work the best.
> 
> Why not give the sequential fathatan, for instance, its own code point ?
> Why opt for a GSUB entry for it ?  I'd much rather see separate code
> points for the few missing characters that are required to render the
> Quran - this would also allow the rendering of the Quran in applications
> that don't depend on font technology.  I'm guessing you have half a
> dozen or so characters to coup with, right ?
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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