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Re: Delason ...

From:Nizar Y.A. Habash <habash@...>
Date:Saturday, April 21, 2001, 7:25
>WebFont Wizard promises to convert 10 fonts to PFRs free: >http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/webfonttools/webfontwiz/index.h >tml
>The WebFont Player plug-in (free) is said to display PFRs with IE: >http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/webfonttools/webfontplayer/inde >x.html
>Have you played with these?
No I haven't. That sounds interesting...
>Thanks! I'll try what is free. And I'll have lotta questions, probably...
good plan :)
>>Arabic displays: >> I saw that you came across the Arabix project that I worked on in my >>last year in my undergraduate degree. Since then I have found better
ways
>The demos are nice, but the prices are monstrose (for me, that is) :(
They are intended for corporations I guess... I have little say in price determination.
>The image-based fonts used in Arabix are interesting too... I guess >they're easier for various ad hoc characters. No?
Not really. That was part of the beauty of Nuun: I was able to do a dynamic font implementation for Arabic before Typograph was able to deal with Arabic character sets (problem is many glyph to single character mapping ). So I used a simpler encoding and designed the font layout myself. I have a version including some special characters (a couple of which are not in the Arabic Unicode set that I have invented to write Palestinian Arabic as part of an ongoing project of mine I intend to publish (hopefully soon after I am done with graduate school).
>So, Delason is going to be one of the most widely used artlangs ;)
from your mouth to God's ears :)
>Thank you again! Like I said, I *will* have questions... :)
No problem... Nizar

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