On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> From TeX-D-L:
> 
> Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font.
> 
> >Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die
> >Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die
> >Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des
> >Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert.
> >
> ><http://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=924>
> ><http://shashafont.com/>
> 
> 
> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper
> OpenType magic?

They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be
around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think the
design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian
 Arab
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