From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:15:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110318111505.GA2006@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0FAE146-E1AE-477B-ABFF-61DEDDC98267@fiee.net>
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
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Khaled Hosny
Egyptian
Arab
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2011-03-18 10:37 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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2011-03-18 20:51 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-03-18 11:15 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
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