--- TAKAHASHI Naoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/
Thank you very much for the pointer/reminder !! > 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. This is the first example I've come across in which a font finally has a GPOS table and I'm dazed and confused :-) Needless to say, we need to add this table to all our fonts (mind you various applications out there can function properly without GPOS), but now the question is how ? From the looks of what I saw its overly convoluted and difficult (and I doubt that this is done by hand - please say it ain't so :-) I've used Fontlab on a windows machine to do font-related hacking in the past, yet I don't see an automatic or programmatic means to do this. I'll be reading this in case others are interested in this topic (and I sure hope there are others), http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/opentype/gpos.jsp In short, we have a number of fonts (in the khotot project [1]) and we would very much like to bring all those fonts upto speed by including GPOS to all of 'em -- any ideas, pointers, help ? All we need is someone to do one of our fonts to show us how its done. [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot Thanks again & Regards, - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
