[XeTeX] Font Development

[Michiel Kamermans]

Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> And one more thing, the FarsiTeX project has some nice Persian/Arabic 
> tfm and Type 1 fonts. They are licensed under Gnu. It would be 
> wonderful if any body would have the time and desire to make the open 
> type version of these fonts. If I had the skills to develop a font, I 
> would definitely do it but as I said before I really know nothing 
> about making fonts.
That should be relatively simple, as FontForge can load type1 fonts just 
fine. Contact the FarsiTeX people and ask them to load the font, 
script-add the relevant opentype tables, and render an oft version?

(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html#Accented etc)


- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com