On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:19:13PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>> OK, here is an initial version. The glyphs are scaled up since
>> Scheherazade is tiny, fixed الله ligature, added لله and فلله ligatures
>> as well, fixed the swash kaf and the Sindi meem and a bunch of Quranic
>> marks as well: http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/simplenaskhi.zip
>
> Ok, thnx, Khaled. I looked at it: The الله is infinitely better, but does 
> not quite match the rest -- the shaddah is way too big for it (or maybe  
> the الله lig is too short). On closer inspection, I see that this is not  
> the full الله lig, but a mix of the no-vowel version with the default  
> shaddah. The actual FDF2 looks better. So there is still some OT work 
> that needs to be done.
>
> I also have some poetry macros that might help, need to port them to the  
> new system...

That'd be great!

>
> Not too bad a font. Like Lotus, it works best at smaller text sizes, not  
> greater than 12 point.
>
> The فلله lig should be off by default, there are other Arabic word  
> combinations that use that combo that have nothing to do with الله.

I can't think in any other word on top of my head, but I'm fine with
making it a 'dlig' instead, it isn't very common any way.

>
> Next steps:
>
> 1. Can I add some fixes to this thing as well or would you like to keep  
> 100% maintainance?
>
> 2. I can try to put in some time in the coming weeks to develop this into 
> a default setup for ConTeXt-mkiv -- per recent discussions -- or I can  
> leave that to you/Otared and just review the results. Just let me know 
> how you would like to proceed.

Of course you are welcomed, actually I won't have much free time till
the end of march, it'd be nice if you can work on it.

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer