I'm using Macintosh platform and my point of interest is to render these fonts usable on this platform. There are not many options on this platform for word processor. MS products for Mac don't support Unicode nor right to left languages. When I was using OS 9, I was using Nisus Writer. I'm sure it can use this font although I didn't try it yet. I'll give it a try when I have time and I'll let you know.
But since two years ago that I moved to OS X, I'm using Mellel which is a working progress but as I mentioned to Andrew Cunningham, it is supposed to support OTF in the future but right now it's not there yet. The point is that even if Mellel supports it, it will be limited in the application because OS X doesn't support it and from what I learned from another discussion forum, Apple intentionally wants to do away with OTF (which apparently is Apple's own old font technology)
But most likely I'll be able to run the font on OS 9. I'll give it a try and I let you know. (it won't help me though!)
Behnam
On 27-Jan-04, at 5:02 AM, Linguasoft wrote:
Dear Behnam,
I haven't experienced any of the problems that you reported below. What kind
of word processor are you using?
On my system(s), the Nafees Nasta'leeq font works nicely in WordXP using RTL
paragraph format. All ligatures are rendered correctly for Urdu letters,
only short vowels (that aren't normally used in Urdu) are mostly rendered
wrongly. Of course, if you use a non-Urdu keyboard and try to type letters
such as U+0647 which aren't supported by the font, the word processor may
escape to its default Arabic font (Times New Roman, in my case).
Unfortunately you are right that both www.crulp.org and www.crulp.nu.edu.pk
have disappeared from the net. I will check with contacts in Pakistan and
let you know.
Best regards,
Peter E. Hauer Linguasoft Vienna, Austria
-----Original Message----- From: Behnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:55 PM To: Linguasoft Subject: Re: Nasta'aligh font
Thanks Peter,
It's more OTF than Unicode. The only glyphs in that font that have Unicode "code" are the main alphabet. So it can't possibly work on a word processor with Unicode support because non of other forms of the characters (initial, medial etc.) are coded. But apparently OTF side of it make it work on PCs. It's easy to make it Unicode compliant though (at least for Persian), but I asked permission (when that site existed) and I didn't get any response.
Behnam
On 26-Jan-04, at 6:10 AM, Linguasoft wrote:
Dear Behnam,
The font in question is Unicode/OTF but still in its beta release. At this stage, it only supports Urdu glyphs but no short vowels. You can imagine why...
Best regards,
Peter E. Hauer Linguasoft Vienna, Austria
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