Re: Quran font release

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

Nicholas,
I did not intended to create the font for windows, but I created the
font under windows. Under Linux, most features should work as per
windows counterpart except for few things. Last time I tried, there
seems to be some problem with placing the mark correctly under Linux.
It works OK under windows. Nobody seems to figure out why. Maybe it
has been fixed with the latest release, but I did not tried it yet.

If you want to try under XP, the best is to try it using Notepad. You
must enable uniscribe (setting under Regional Setting). If you use
wordpad, I think it uses gdiplus, so the results will vary slightly.

Seems like a lot of people came back and ask me about how to create a
keyboard for the font. I think there are other resources out there.
Anyway, seems there are a number of request, maybe I'll post a
tutorial someday ..

Regards.

On 10/30/06, heer <heer at u dot washington dot edu> wrote:
> Meor,
>
>         I didn't realize that you made the fonts for Windows.  I thought
> they would work in Linux as well.  Most fonts I have seem to work in both.
> I will try your fonts again in Windows XP.  I don't have MS Word, but
> maybe they will work in WordPad or emeditor with the standard MS Arabic
> keyboard.  I've never used the MS Keyboard Layout Creator.  In Linux it is
> easy to edit an existing keyboard file, but I've never figured out how to
> create an entirely new keyboard.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
>
> > Nicholas
> > First thing first. I do not have a linux system currently, so cannot
> > test it under linux.
> >
> > About keyboard, I created my own keyboard layout under windows using
> > MS Keyboard Layout creator. Basically, you can assign any unicode code
> > to any keystroke. You just need to change the keyboard layout
> > (software).
> >
> > About the line spacing. People are saying they have problem using
> > gedit, but firefox is OK. I don't have the recourses at the moment to
> > investigate why iut happens, but I suspect it has something to do with
> > gedit. It works ok under Windows (most application using uniscribe or
> > gdiplus).
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > On 10/20/06, heer <heer at u dot washington dot edu> wrote:
> >> Meor,
> >>
> >>         I downloaded your Qur'an font and installed it on Debian Linux.
> >> I could not get it to work in Open Office or in Katoob, but it did work in
> >> gedit and kedit.  I noticed, however, that there is not enough line
> >> spacing for the font.  The tops and bottoms of some letters get cut off.
> >> That was also a problem with your other font, I believe.  And how does one
> >> use the font to type the Qur'an?  I only tried it out with regular imla'i
> >> Arabic.  Do you have a special keyboard to use with it?
> >>
> >> Nicholas
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> >>
> >> > Assalamualaikum,
> >> >
> >> > Since the first announcement did not catch much attention, I'll post it
> >> > again.
> >> >
> >> > I've released my font that are capable to render the Quran as per
> >> > Madinah Mushaf. You can get the details here
> >> > http://arabicfonts.wikispaces.com/ . Please try it and give some
> >> > feedback to it. If someone would further develop it, I welcome the
> >> > help.
> >> >
> >> > Regards.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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