Hi Lars, On 12/12/08, Lars Behrens <lars.behrens at pi.uka.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Asif Lodhi: >> ... There is NO free Urdu (Pakistan's national >> language which is 90% Hindi and 10% Persian+Arabic but with >> Persian/Arabic complex script/font) font available here > > I am no expert on that, but do you know these ... > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/
These are "Naskh" fonts - not the complex script Nastaleeq-style. As far as I know, NO Urdu newspaper in Pakistan uses Naskh fonts or mainstream publishing. No Urdu publication can gain wide-spread adoption unless and until it's in Nastaleeq. All Nastaleeq (complex-script) fonts are proprietary. I know about PakType but they are not upto the mark even by Naskh standards. Naskh fonts are easy to develop and program but they are hardly used to write Urdu - though Naskh fonts _are_ used in other Pakistani languages. Thanks for the feedback, -Asif
