On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:46, Hooman Mehr wrote: > One more thing, the reason that I may seem talented for story telling > is that I am an INFP (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html), so > be-warned.
Ah, I can't confirm that, since it's too psychological. But Hooman talks a lot! ;) I can't forget him and Mehran Mehr (of CyberMehr) *standing* and talking for around six hours, perhaps to see who resigns first! (And he is wise, deep, and experienced, no one can deny that.) Let me start with my story about Hooman. It was before FarsiWeb was born (it was 1998 or 1997, I guess), when we still worked on FarsiTeX, and we were trying to add a new font to FarsiTeX. A colleague, Hadi Karimi, had found about Hooman and his company, Quartz Computer, and we went and met him there. It was a long and productive session, when we learned about Multiple Master fonts (and how they are different from METAFONTs), Adobe's localization process, The euro conversion and its implication of existing software, Unicode's lack of "Subscript Alef" for Persian, etc. Hadi got page-size prints of the Azin font, and I got a good perspective of Persian computing issues as Hooman looks at them. And ah, I knew him before that. His name was mentioned in ISIRI 2901 and ISIRI 3342, and he had written the most sensible article in the issue of "khabarnaame-ye anformaatik" which was about the ISIRI 3342 standard. He clearly mentioned there that ISIRI 3342 doesn't conform to the requirements of the ISO 8859 set of standards, something that I found about its importance years later. I didn't meet him again until 2003, when he came to Sharif trying to find the FarsiWeb people. I was very very busy at the moment, and not knowing him, was trying to get rid of him! When he only told me his name, I canceled everything else I was doing at the moment. It ended a long frustration period of mine which I was thinking there is no person I can learn from in the field who is still in Iran. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
