Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:51:13 -0700, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:56:07AM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>> So just start with Arabic, then Farsi, and forget the rest for now. No
>> need for perfection at the outset ;-)
>>
>> Actually, I suggest forgetting about ligatures etc. for now, and just  
>> get
>> the basics done for Scheherazade. We can work on ligatures etc later.
>
> 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...

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.

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.

سلام
Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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