[Openfontlibrary] Raph's font format

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Tue Oct 31 16:33:10 PST 2006


On 01/11/06, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>     don't know anyone else who ever
>     mentioned arabic typography,
>
> As it happens, TUG 2006 (http://tug.org/tug2006) is taking place in
> Morocco next week.  Lots of Arabic typesetting and font talks.

Cool :-)

As I clicked send, I suddenly started to remember all the mentions of
Arabic typography I have heard. A friend of mine even went to a arabic
typography conference in Dubai, whic I forgot about, oops :-)

>From what IIRC he said, there's a real boom going on in arabic type
design at the moment... :-)

> As for a designer who might be interested in participating here, the
> person who comes to my mind is Roozbeh Pournader,
> http://www.farsitex.org among other places.  He is a long time GNU and
> TeX contributor.  I don't feel competent to tell him what he'd be
> participating in, myself :)

Done

-- 
Regards,
Dave


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