Here I have to interject and mention that we may be understanding different things from the term ligature. When Meor says that he does not use a single ligature in his font he means that anything that looks like a ligature rendered with his font is actually a composite of letterforms binded together to look like a ligature. So rather than using one static lam-alef glyph he uses two seperate letterforms each for one half of the lam-alef "ligature", the same way SIL fonts are designed. This way you can color them seperately. From what I understand when Tom mentions ligatures he is referring to its more general meaning in typography rather than this more narrow meaning of it as glyphs packaged within a computer font file. Right, Tom?
-Mete ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:06:34 +0800 >So it seems that I misunderstood you ealier mail... Sorry for that. > >> >> I am strongly in favour of ligatures, but against malfunctioning or >> incomplete ligatures. Hence my somewhat sarcastic comment. >> > >Anyway, I still don't quite get what you mean by saying the font it a >tremendous improvement over MS "Arabic Typesetting" font? Is it >because of it's feature, or it's look? I have to agree, that the look >of Arabic Typesetting is not that great, but it does have more feature >compare to those fonts by SIL. > >I've sent to you a PDF file showing the font that I'm working on, >basically without using a single ligature (I use different colors for >each glyph just to prove my point) and yet this preserved most >alternate glpyh style (still not complete yet, but not sure how to >further). S, what do you say about it? Of course , the font face is >taken directly from the actual Madinah mushaf. > >Do you have ideas on arabic justification that you don't mind sharing with us? > >Regards. > > -- Mete Kural Touchtone Corporation 714-755-2810 --
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