Vous (Asif Lodhi) avez ?crit?: > 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
Hi Asif, I think the best place to develop your idea, which is great indeed, and meet interested and helpful people must be the Open Font Library mailing-list[1]. Once you?re in the process of actually producing something, the other best place where you?ll have very valuable input about technical issues is Fontforge mailing-list[2]. There must be others I don?t know about, but at least with those you?ll be in touch with right people. [1]<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary> [2]<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/#Mail> -- Pierre Marchand
