Re: A Web Design Question

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:32:08 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>I think I stumbled across that conlang over a year ago-- I recall "forda" =
>'car'.  The design IS nice!
In another page of his, he displays Arabic fonts using a java applet that
manages small .gif pictures and recodes the text:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~habash/arabix/

Works fine, too. He's really inventive!

>From the introduction, it sounds as if he
>developed it pretty much all on his own-- i.e. no reference to Tolkien et
>al., who inspired so many of us.
He knows the word 'conlang' - an eloquent thing ;)
>
>I tried the Georgian site, and get only ÁÖÍÝŸÉ etc.  But the Delason site
>gave no problems.  What is/are Dynamic Fonts and where do I find it/them?
Unfortunately, I don't know much. Previously I only dealt with a Netscape
option inviting to disable them ;) . Web search yields loads of documents
that I haven't examined yet. I only understood that a special font format
is used, .pfr . I wonder if there's a font converter/editor for it.


Basilius

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