On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:51:13 -0700, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:56:07AM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
So just start with Arabic, then Farsi, and forget the rest for now. No
need for perfection at the outset ;-)
Actually, I suggest forgetting about ligatures etc. for now, and just
get
the basics done for Scheherazade. We can work on ligatures etc later.
OK, here is an initial version. The glyphs are scaled up since
Scheherazade is tiny, fixed الله ligature, added لله and فلله ligatures
as well, fixed the swash kaf and the Sindi meem and a bunch of Quranic
marks as well: http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/simplenaskhi.zip
Ok, thnx, Khaled. I looked at it: The الله is infinitely better, but does
not quite match the rest -- the shaddah is way too big for it (or maybe
the الله lig is too short). On closer inspection, I see that this is not
the full الله lig, but a mix of the no-vowel version with the default
shaddah. The actual FDF2 looks better. So there is still some OT work that
needs to be done.
I also have some poetry macros that might help, need to port them to the
new system...
Not too bad a font. Like Lotus, it works best at smaller text sizes, not
greater than 12 point.
The فلله lig should be off by default, there are other Arabic word
combinations that use that combo that have nothing to do with الله.
Next steps:
1. Can I add some fixes to this thing as well or would you like to keep
100% maintainance?
2. I can try to put in some time in the coming weeks to develop this into
a default setup for ConTeXt-mkiv -- per recent discussions -- or I can
leave that to you/Otared and just review the results. Just let me know how
you would like to proceed.
سلام
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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