Dear Khaled, thank you for your info. Ambaradan is a completely free project and the fonts are distributed together with the software, therefore only free fonts can be used. At this stage I would say our only possibility is to use Scheherazade by SIL.
Today I finished the first step on our langauge list with a txt file where I will start to annotate modifications and notes. I would like to keep Arabeyes.org as reference point for Arabic scripts. I don't know if we really can be of help, but at least we can try to give some more visibility. Regards, Sabine I hope that sooner or later On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, Arabeyes fonts covers only basic Arabic code point (i.e. > Arabic language only, no Persian etc. nor special Quranic marks). I > wouldn't suggest Arabeyes fonts for any serious work, ironically I'm the > maintainer of it, the fonts are of poor quality and generally decorative > fonts not for running text. If you can afford buying commercial fonts, > I'd suggest one of Linotype fonts (Lotus is the standard font for books > nowadays, Yakout used to be the standard newspaper's font, and still > used by many newspapers). For free fonts, SIL's Scheherazade is a good > font, and covers virtually all languages written in Arabic script, but > it has some aesthetically poor aspects. > > We have some projects for high quality fonts for print, but still work > in progress and it is too early to say when it'll be ready. > > Regards, > Khaled > >
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