2013/12/7 Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>: > 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 > Do I understand well that your name in Arabic is خالد حسني (I do not know Arabic, I just guess from the calligraphy because I know حسن from Hindi and Urdu and the dictionary says that the word is of Arabic origin).
> 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 -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
