Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
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From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font.
Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic?
I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar issues. Arthur
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Am 2011-03-18 um 12:01 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
I don’t care about Arabic myself, but I thought it would be nice to have another choice for a free Arabic font to use with ConTeXt. Even if it’s screen optimized, it might work well in print, too - and some of use use ConTeXt more often for presentations anyway. Am 2011-03-18 um 12:15 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
If your kind of expertise isn’t needed, the better - I can only see that your samples look impressive, but have no clue how excellent Arabic typography *should* look... ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think the design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
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Arthur Reutenauer
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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Khaled Hosny