Thanks Mete for the clarification. I do understand it that way, but others who are reading this might got confused. Anyway, I've sent a PDF file to Thomas showing my font's features, so I think he understand what I mean.
Regards. On 8/3/05, Mete Kural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >
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