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micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:19:13PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid =D8=A7=D8=AF= =D8=B1=D9=8A=D8=B3 =D8=B3=D9=85=D8=A7=D9=88=D9=8A =D8=AD=D8=A7=D9=85=D8=AF = wrote: >> OK, here is an initial version. The glyphs are scaled up since >> Scheherazade is tiny, fixed =D8=A7=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 ligature, added =D9= =84=D9=84=D9=87 and =D9=81=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 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 =D8=A7=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 is infinit= ely better, but does=20 > not quite match the rest -- the shaddah is way too big for it (or maybe = =20 > the =D8=A7=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 lig is too short). On closer inspection, I s= ee that this is not =20 > the full =D8=A7=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 lig, but a mix of the no-vowel version = with the default =20 > shaddah. The actual FDF2 looks better. So there is still some OT work=20 > that needs to be done. > > I also have some poetry macros that might help, need to port them to the = =20 > new system... That'd be great! > > Not too bad a font. Like Lotus, it works best at smaller text sizes, not = =20 > greater than 12 point. > > The =D9=81=D9=84=D9=84=D9=87 lig should be off by default, there are othe= r Arabic word =20 > combinations that use that combo that have nothing to do with =D8=A7=D9= =84=D9=84=D9=87. 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 = =20 > 100% maintainance? > > 2. I can try to put in some time in the coming weeks to develop this into= =20 > a default setup for ConTeXt-mkiv -- per recent discussions -- or I can = =20 > leave that to you/Otared and just review the results. Just let me know=20 > 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 --=20 Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkW4IACgkQRoqITGOuyPIMEgCgjYi6zwIK9Ti+qxDxqZRcTbgd xpsAn09MG5Se/MhBeRKkctbdI45Ez/rh =YNeN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK-- --===============1457529729== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ --===============1457529729==--