The last news I have from Roozbeh, goes back to last year or the year before that, where MS bought Nazanin and Mitra from Monotype.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote: > I decided to try out the recently advertised group > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > thinking I could find out what is involved in adjusting embedding > permissions and kerning (I just picked up this term and don't know if that > is indeed what is causing the diacritics to break up connecting letters) > in my old version of Nazanin which looks much nicer than Borna's. > > Now, someone from M$ is also in that group and trying to tell me I don't > have any right to tamper with Nazanin. > > Can anyone here tell me who invented Nazanin? I was under the impression > that it was freeware before the term "freeware" was invented. Although my > version has "Sinasoft" written on it, I have no idea who or what Sinasoft > is and if they are the original makers or whether they just "improved "it > or what. > > -Connie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:43:50 -0800 > From: Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Arabic script languages and diacritics > > The issue with browsers who break on diacritics is not font related. It > is the shaping engines that is responsible for determining the > contextual shape of the Arabic script text. > > If an engine does not "ignore" the presense of diacritics in the shaping > process they will not know that one base letter should be initial and > the next should be final because their shaping algorithm does not match > the base letters. > > I would like to point out that many fonts are stolen or are not > something that a person who does not own the outlines has the rights to > modify. The original outlines for Nazanin belong to Linotype who has > never provided a public domain font. Unless you have permission of the > font owner to modify the font you are breaking a licensing agreement. > > Honesty, integrity and protecting intellectual property rights of > software (fonts are software) is critical for the computer industry to > succeed. If you are trying to feed your family from writing software and > everyone steals it, you will have to find another job to feed your > family, or go hungry. > > Regards, > > Paul Nelson > Development Lead > Microsoft Typography > > > > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > -- Behdad Esfahbod 2 Azar 1381, 2002 Nov 23 http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code] #define is_persian_leap(y) ((((y)-474)%2820+2820)%2820*31%128<31) _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
