Hi Pierre, On 12/12/08, Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> wrote: > Vous (Asif Lodhi) avez ?crit : >> Hi Lars, >> >> On 12/12/08, Lars Behrens <lars.behrens at pi.uka.de> wrote: >> > Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Asif Lodhi: >> >> ... There is NO free Urdu (Pakistan's national >> >> language which is 90% Hindi and 10% Persian+Arabic but with >> >> Persian/Arabic complex script/font) font available here >> > >> > I am no expert on that, but do you know these ... >> > >> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/ >> >> These are "Naskh" fonts - not the complex script Nastaleeq-style. As >> far as I know, NO Urdu newspaper in Pakistan uses Naskh fonts or >> mainstream publishing. No Urdu publication can gain wide-spread >> adoption unless and until it's in Nastaleeq. All Nastaleeq >> (complex-script) fonts are proprietary. I know about PakType but they >> are not upto the mark even by Naskh standards. Naskh fonts are easy to >> develop and program but they are hardly used to write Urdu - though >> Naskh fonts _are_ used in other Pakistani languages. >> >> Thanks for the feedback, >> >> -Asif > > Hi Asif, > > [1]<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary> > [2]<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/#Mail>
Thank you very much for the open font library link. I feel that this will help. Thanks. -Asif
