Hello, I've checked the second screenshot and the demo, vowel signs look OK to me.
Keep up the good work, if I need something like this, I'll consider your lib as one of the options. Ayman On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:14:04 +0900 (JST), TAKAHASHI Naoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Arabeyes developers, > > Nadim Shaikli kindly encouraged me to post this information to this list. > > We have been working on developing a software library to > multilingualise Unix/Linux software. Our library helps writing > application programs that need to display/input/edit various languages > and scripts including, of course, Arabic. > > http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/ > > A snapshot of a sample program (a simple editor) using this library is > available at the following URL. > > http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/tmpdir/un.png > > The font used there is Riwaj.ttf. I do not read Arabic, but it looks > farely beautiful. However, the font fails to position vowel signs > correctly. Look at this. > > http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/tmpdir/poem.png > > I have investigated all the opentype fonts available from the Arabeyes > web site. Unfortunately, none of them had appropriate GPOS features. > So I imagine that vowels signs have little importance to native > speakers. > > Anyway, we will be very glad if you make use of our library to develop > Arabised application programs for Unix/Linux systems. > > Best regards, > > -- > TAKAHASHI Naoto > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/ > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer

