for those interested: the PDF with the Al Computer Magazine articles has been updated and now contains an English abstract:
www.decotype.com/AlKumbyuutar_cover_story.pdf (8.5 Mb) t Thomas Milo wrote: >> Dr Boutros of Dar Assayad in Beirut kindly took the trouble to read >> my various publications about Arabic typography. He summarized them >> into a technical introduction to the review of Huda Smitshuijzen Abi >> Fares' Comprehensive Sourcebook of Arabic Typography that I wrote >> for the April issue of the Leiden academic journal Bibliotheca >> Orientalis. It is followed by the review of the chapter on script >> identification by Mohamed Zakariya. In addition to that, the veteran >> publisher and Arabic typography expert Samy Dergham helped with the >> terminology and contributed an article about his own work in this >> field. The article also contains an introduction to the concept of >> Unicode. >> >> The publication was timed to coincide with the Gulf Information >> Technology Exhibition which is presently held in Dubai UAE. >> >> I posted a PDF of the relevant pages of Al-Computer, Communications >> and Electronics Magazine (in case it is difficult to obtain the >> original), to which I added a copy of the original English article, >> for those who don't read Arabic. >> >> >> t >> >> Annex - please download form here: >> www.decotype.com/publications/AlKumbyuutar_cover_story.pdf >> >> Dar Assayad >> http://www.alanwar.com/anwar/darassayad.shtml >> http://www.darassayad.net/ >> >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
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