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[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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> 
> Le Jeu 11 mars 2010 06:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
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> > In contrast, the archaic, +25 years old TeX is able to cope with modern
> > technology, and have people who do actually care about typography. Last
> > month I was able to convince ConTeXt developer to implement support for
> > OpenType Optical margins (opbd) feature, though there isn't any font
> > that implement it (or any other system, free or proprietary, that
> > support it), but I need it for my Arabic fonts, and it take a few mail
> > exchanges to get it.
> 
> BTW when DejaVu Arabic was done it was limited by the lack of any support for
> opentype BASE in font libs. So it was not possible to create a font with
> different metrics for Latin and Arabic. Lately Behdad has indicated he would
> add BASE to pango if he had a floss font to test with. (but DejaVu maintainers
> lost the drive to do it in the meanwhile). So if you're feeling adventurous
> (hint hint)

I've some other secret plan for DejaVu Arabic ;)

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer