[XeTeX] List of free Unicode fonts

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0400, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> Gareth Hughes wrote:
>> I've noticed that there a lot of decent, free Unicode fonts available,
>> some of which have interesting OpenType features to play with with
>> XeTeX. I've put together the following PDF as a general guide and would
>> like any suggestions or comments from the list. The PDF can be
>> downloaded from:
>>
>> http://www.garzo.co.uk/documents/freefonts.pdf
>
> I thank you for this, which is quite interesting.  But allow me to bring
> up my gripe--with the makers of these fonts, not with you.  My gripe is
> that very few of them give any clear indication of the Unicode ranges  
> they cover, much less the exact code points.
>
> I'm gotten on this hobby horse because we're looking for a monospaced
> font that covers the Pashto characters.  (Monospaced so we can work with
> XML docs in a programmer's editor, or in a terminal; we have suitable
> proportionally spaced fonts for Pashto.)

Have you tried Thabit font from Arabeyes
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot
It does support Arabic, Farsi and Pashto (I planned to support Urdu too,
but never had time to do it).

Regards,
 Khaled


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