* Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) [not found] <4D82949A.9010203@GMX.DE> @ 2011-03-18 10:37 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 2011-03-18 11:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer 2011-03-18 11:15 ` Khaled Hosny 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2011-03-18 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing ConTeXt users list for From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. > Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die > Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die > Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des > Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert. > > <http://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=924> > <http://shashafont.com/> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) 2011-03-18 10:37 ` Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2011-03-18 11:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer 2011-03-18 20:51 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 2011-03-18 11:15 ` Khaled Hosny 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Arthur Reutenauer @ 2011-03-18 11:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users > Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper > OpenType magic? I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar issues. Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) 2011-03-18 11:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer @ 2011-03-18 20:51 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2011-03-18 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Am 2011-03-18 um 12:01 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: >> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper >> OpenType magic? > > I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that > case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more > about > hinting and similar issues. I don’t care about Arabic myself, but I thought it would be nice to have another choice for a free Arabic font to use with ConTeXt. Even if it’s screen optimized, it might work well in print, too - and some of use use ConTeXt more often for presentations anyway. Am 2011-03-18 um 12:15 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be > around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think > the > design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks. If your kind of expertise isn’t needed, the better - I can only see that your samples look impressive, but have no clue how excellent Arabic typography *should* look... ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) 2011-03-18 10:37 ` Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google) Henning Hraban Ramm 2011-03-18 11:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer @ 2011-03-18 11:15 ` Khaled Hosny 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Khaled Hosny @ 2011-03-18 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > From TeX-D-L: > > Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. > > >Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die > >Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die > >Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des > >Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert. > > > ><http://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=924> > ><http://shashafont.com/> > > > Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper > OpenType magic? They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think the design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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