On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > I'm affraid this topic has veered a bit from Anmar's initial much > needed question on what is needed from X.org - that info is still > needed !! Are we ready to say we do NOT need anything from them ?
I, talking for myself, say all we need is to updated our keyboard maps. Nothing else that I can see right now, as a Fedora user. Maybe just that old "fixed" fonts problem. > > Oh, I'm afraid the consequense would be that, Kacst fonts are > > removed from the distro, and replaced by fonts that support the > > whole block. > > Behdad, I'd suggest you outline the glyphs that are needed for > Farsi so we can at a min try to augment all our fonts with them. > I'd also suggest you add the missing farsi fonts to KACST and > re-release 'em under a different name (it is GPL after all) until > such a time that the KACST folk take that requirement more seriously > and we can open a more constructive dialog with them on this topic. Sounds good. Is the name copyrighted? If not, then no need to change the name. Behnam, can you provide a list of glyphs as per the spec you have been involved in? > For the umteenth time - we really need more font expertise, can > we setup a time on IRC to discuss font issues with the Farsi > font experts with regard to hinting, etc, etc ? We also need > volunteers interested in this to raise their hands... As I said before, I'm kinda is OpenType a pharmacy type of a guy. Behnam and Roozbeh are our experts (plus Mehran and Soheil which I guess are not listening here). > Salam. > > - Nadim Cheers, --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
