For the last few days I've been updating the quran xml files and the font files. So far, I've completed for sura 1 to 9, covering 1/3 of the quran. The files contains all of the marks thats included in the Madina mushaf. The file is with Ossama, and hope can provide the link for the rest can download and test. I include also the font files (modified from arabeyes-qr) that's necessary to rendered it properly. I tested it using notepad under windows XP, so maybe others can test it under linux (I don't have the latest gnome/pango to fully test the font's capability under linux)
There are, some issues that still need to be resolved. 1. Sequantial tanween (fathatan, dammatan, kasratan). Mr Yousif suggested by assigning it to code 0659, 065A and 065B, which I did. The problem with it is the the shaping behaviour of the character changed. I've tried to my best to make it work, but several issues remains, most notably for the ligature Lam alef. It simply does not convert to the correct ligature. So far, I've not find a solution to this, so maybe others can help (you will notice this in the files with Ossama). 2. Floating /medial hamza. Mr Yousif suggest to modified the shaping behaviour of the char Hamza (0621) to have a medial shaping, but I find it difficult to implement it correctly under windows (tried it with arabeyes-qr font, also does not work). For most cases, it is OK, but the problem appear when the needs for the ligature lam alef with floating hamza. For now, I use 2 different code for the 2: a. Medial hamza (bi aa yaat) , I encode it with tatweel and high hamza (0654) b. For lam alef with floating hamzah (li aa yaat), I use lam hamza alef I know it is a bit incosistent but so far that the best solution I can find to make it display correctly. So, you wont see this problem in the above files. (of course, I can change this to other code without a problem) 3. Ligature lam alefwasla. It is not in the original arabeyes-qr, but I've included in my modified font. (eg sura 3 aya 167) 4. The small arabic small letters (alef, waw, yeh). There are still a few issues regarding this, even using the arabeyes-qr font with the workaround. The problem I found is the when the small alef medial is followed by ligature lamalef. The small alef changes to medial shaped correctly, but the lamalef ligature does not take it's final form. The xml files with Ossama currently is broken into one sura per file. It does not, however contains the searchtext, only qurantext. I'll work on the rest of the sura for the next few weeks, and hope others can proof read the files, keeping in mind the above issues that I mention. I think it will be better if we can index each word from the quran , mapping what is written in the mushaf against how the word are being spell in todays arabic. That whould be much better in terms of searching capability of any software. Hope we can proof read the files asap. Regards. Meor Ridzuan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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