> So it's Linotype? I thought it's Monotype. They should have got their > hands on the outlines somewhere in the process. Presumably there are employees of Linotype/Monotype among the silent lurkers here enjoying our conversation...
> One point to raise is that the Nazanin we use is not *hinted*. Their > Nazanin should be hinted. So our Nazanin is not based on theirs. I wish I knew what hinting is. No, never mind. I don't want to know. However, our Nazanin has a whole list of defects: could use a few more of the rarer glyphs (like dagger alif), no embedding, the diacritics break-up problem, some positioning problems. (Some of these problems were fixed by Borna but in the process, they ruined the appearance of the font--at least for web viewing, it's ok in Word on-screen or as a print out.) But why did Microsoft even pay money for a ready-made font with so many defects? And why Nazanin? There are so many Persian calligraphers living within walking distance to MS. As mentioned earlier, Persian experts don't know anything about computers but they could have easily paired up an English geek with a Persian calligrapher. Help, I'm so confused! And why did this guy tell me that the font has nothing to do with the diacritics break-up problem and that it was a browser problem? Can it really be possible he doesn't know that it DOES have to do with the font? (Although IE clearly is smarter than the Gecko browsers in making up for whatever the font is lacking.) > Of course, but does Borna's copyright statement give you the right to > modify them also? Borna's contribution (and if you from Borna are also silently lurking I truly thank you for it :) ) is to show it IS possible to fix these problems with the font. However, Borna has done a sloppy job so we should go back and modify the Sina version, not Borna. I just don't know what to think. If Microsoft gives the world a decent Persian font which will work on 80% + of computers and perhaps only they have the ability to do so then I'm the happiest person on earth. And on top of that, the lovely Nazanin, what could be better?! Here I thought I (newbie extraordinaire) would have to look into repairing the existing Nazanin. But what if they on-purpose don't fix the diacritics problem so that the font won't work in non-IE browsers? What if I want to add dagger alif but can't because the new Nazanin MS is no longer freeware?? -Connie _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
