--- Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Salaamu Alaikum > > Today, I met Dr. Mohammed Alkanhal and Mr. Naif Alrajhi (Font designer) at > kacst Computer and Electronics Research Institute. The meeting is fruitful > and gave me good impression about the future of our collaboration together.
Thank you Munzir as we really need better communication with all like-minded working groups out there for better/faster results. > In no particular order: > > Transparency: > I told them about Arabeyes.org complain regarding a > single contact point. lack of visibility into their roadmap (announce > packages once done). > [The response is: alkanhal (at) kacst.edu.sa, nalrajhi(at)kacst.edu.sa] OK, then we'll CC the gentlemen noted. It would be ideal if both Mr. AlKanhal and Mr. AlRajhi subscribed to 'general' as many topics (esp. of late) are of direct interest. > Fonts: > I discussed many fonts issues with them. Mr. Naif promised to solve them > all in their comming version which would contain more fonts and some > improvements. I discussed the missing Quranic glyphs, the asterisk, fonts > naming, hinting, spacing, harakat, slanting, thickness, styles, rounding, > gaps, word spacing, nongnu.org/freefonts, Urdu Nastaliq Unicode, .... I > think it will turned out that the whole font need to be redrawn to look > better. Great - one thing that was not mentioned is we are in need of someone with proper skills (ie. Mr. AlRajhi :-) to look over our 'Khotot' project to, more specifically, look over the salvaged fonts. http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot I personally have a number of questions which I'd like to get answered (as I have minimal experience (if you even want to call it that :-) with fonts). > Unicode: > Regarding pushing Unicode to adopt the missing glyphs, they said they will be > happy to make the proposal official as much as they can in case it's written > by arabeyes.org. So, please, let's begin this. Some one with some experience > need to write a proposal and they will support him. I have a non-complete list of things from Mohammed.Yusif with regards to the missing glyphs. I will ping him on a finalized list and get back to this topic (else I'll simply mail off the document I'm holding). What he'd noted (so far) are all legit glyphs that are needed indeed. > Umm al-quora algorithm: > May be this issue has already been resolved from the last mail about the > subject (a book mentioned, I think). But if there is still remaining issues > they are willing to help. They mentioned Mr. Alharithi many times regarding > some issues but I think he is busy and now abroad. Also, Mr. Altwaijri is > mentioned. Well, it would have been nice to see an Arabic site that talks about the algorithm instead of being referred to a latin book for details ;-) It might be a good idea to start collecting and publishing such algorithms in a single location for others to benefit from. > Payable translators: > It will be discussed and I will be happy to train them how to use cvs and > we can offer an account with the name kacst and password ***** ;) for them > to begin with. We got wind of this idea via Mr. Al-Twaijry (as he was kind enough to let us know). We officially replied here, http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/January/msg00086.html As for a single account - I don't think we'd go that way; individual accounts per user is more the norm (a detail we'll work out later). > Super .LUG using RSS: > Some one need to contact .sa LUG and see what have been done. I pinged Mr. Al-Twaijry about this as well and he restarted looking into it, we'll inshalla hear something from him soon (Ahmad, don't be shy :-). > Are we ready to convert? > They handle me a report regarding Evaluation of Office packages in linux. > They said they forwarded a copy to Arabeyes before. It seemed as if I had > missed this report. It's prepared by Yousuf Alharithi and others under the > supervision of Dr. alkanhal and Prof. fayz. It's very nice since it points > out some bugs that I am sure have not been reported as bugs before. > Now, what happened to the bugs page. It's very essential to have it NOW > so we can know what's missing and make priorities. To be fully honest, I don't remember it (Elzubeir ?) but then again we do tend to get _lots_ of things -- we'd certainly had made it public if we did though. Salam and thanks for all your continued help !! - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
