On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le Jeu 11 mars 2010 06:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : > > > In contrast, the archaic, +25 years old TeX is able to cope with modern > > technology, and have people who do actually care about typography. Last > > month I was able to convince ConTeXt developer to implement support for > > OpenType Optical margins (opbd) feature, though there isn't any font > > that implement it (or any other system, free or proprietary, that > > support it), but I need it for my Arabic fonts, and it take a few mail > > exchanges to get it. > > BTW when DejaVu Arabic was done it was limited by the lack of any support for > opentype BASE in font libs. So it was not possible to create a font with > different metrics for Latin and Arabic. Lately Behdad has indicated he would > add BASE to pango if he had a floss font to test with. (but DejaVu maintainers > lost the drive to do it in the meanwhile). So if you're feeling adventurous > (hint hint)
I've some other secret plan for DejaVu Arabic ;) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
