Hi Reza! First, you are of course welcome to alter the fonts as you like, for your own purposes.
If you want to submit changes to the GNU FreeFont project, let's please talk before you spend too much time on it. I'm picky about what is acceptable. You should also be aware, several corrections have been made to Arabic in GNU FreeFont since the last release Please let me know how you are using FreeMono. It is a recent addition, and there was some question whether it would really be useful. Note that FreeSerif already has bold! "Italic" has been a question: (Of course not "italic" but an "oblique", or "slanted" version). The question is, should it slant more to the *right* like the rest of the font, or more to the "left"? (I have asked Arabic speakers, and never got an answer.) On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Reza M <reza.ene...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I saw this link and I want to add bold and italic fonts to freefonts for > Arabic family > I done this process > 1-installed fontforge-cygwin > 2-copy Arabic glyphs from FreeMono.sfd to FreeMonoBold.sdf and using stork > for bolding glyph but for some of glyphs (for example:1588) it has warning > that says > > at least one of anchor points was lost when pasting ... > This refers to anchor points for the GPOS table 'mark' and 'mkmk'. First import the 'mark' table for Arabic from FreeMono to FreeMonoBold. (Open both files in the same session. In FreeMonoBold, Font Info->Lookups->GPOS, click Import. This will show the GPOS tables in FreeMono.) Then copy-paste your glyphs. > after pressing OK > it says that unibb6 is not in this font! > what should i do? I have no idea what unibb6 is... Maybe you mean unifbb6? This is a glyph in the "Arabic Presentation Forms" range. You are trying to copy a glyph which contains a reference to unifbb6, without first copying unifbb6. You will find that unifbb6 itself is a reference to another glyph, so you will have to first track down the original glyphs, and copy that one first. Note that there are several non-Unicode glyph auxiliaries in the font. They are named like "arab_*". References to these glyphs exist in many letters. Cheers!
