Hi Nadim, You are coming through loud an clear.
> Thomas (not sure if my questions are reaching you, but here goes another > one), how long do you expect such technologies making its way to the > end-user from the likes of microsoft and/or adobe (and I'm not talking > about hacking/creating something on our own either) ? OT technology has already a solid bridgehead on the MS windows platforms NT5 and later; Adobe InDesign also renders OT on MacOSX; MacOSX itself is steadily increasing its Arabic support. I am copying this messge to the Apple Font department to get their time estimate for full OT and or ATSUI support for Arabic. > Finally, why is this "font technology" only specific to Arabic - why aren't > such things being proposed and/or discussed and pursued (and maybe they > are) for umlaut-type characters in German/Swedish/etc (out of curiosity) ? It is not at all specific for Arabic. You guessed it right, OT is already very useful for the characteristic diarrhoea of Latin alphabets :-) (ACE was developed specifically for Arabic, though) regards, t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
