Not at all! I even designed a companion Latin font, so that readers of Latin script can enjoy the same quality and polishes of FreeSerif that Arabic script reader enjoy:
http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/tmp/freeserif.html Please use both and don’t let Arabic readers have all the joy. Regards, Khaled On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 01:28:31AM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > I'm sensing, I think, that you don't like that font, Khaled? > > Dominik :-) > > > 2013/12/5 Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>: > > > > > > >> > Please, please, please, never ever use GNU free font for Arabic; it is > > >> > the most hideous, crappy and useless un-Arabic font ever created, my > > >> > blood boils every time I see it in use. > > >> > > > >> Could you summarize what is wrong and report it? > > > > > > All of it, the Arabic range is utter crap. > > > > > >> Steve White will > > >> certainly fix it (unless it is better toreplace the whole Arabic > > >> block). > > > > > > I did, and even offered to work on replacement, but the offer was turned > > > down. > > > > > >> I see problems with dochachmee he, Urdu words as بھآرت and ؔٹھیک are > > >> not displayed properly. > > > > > > There is no point in looking at the microlevel, the whole thing is > > > worthless garbage and should be tossed in the nearest trash bin. Whoever > > > designed it has absolutely no idea about Arabic and its design, I take > > > it personally and find this garbage an insult to the Arabic script. Show > > > a text typeset with it to an Urdu speaker and he is likely to vomit in > > > disgust. > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
