[XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 15:15:53 CET 2013


2013/12/7 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> Not at all! I even designed a companion Latin font, so that readers of
> Latin script can enjoy the same quality and polishes of FreeSerif that
> Arabic script reader enjoy:
>
> http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/tmp/freeserif.html
>
Do I understand well that your name in Arabic is خالد حسني (I do not
know Arabic, I just guess from the calligraphy because I know حسن from
Hindi and Urdu and the dictionary says that the word is of Arabic
origin).

> Please use both and don’t let Arabic readers have all the joy.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 01:28:31AM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>> I'm sensing, I think, that you don't like that font, Khaled?
>>
>> Dominik :-)
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/5 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
>> >
>>
>>
>> > >> > Please, please, please, never ever use GNU free font for Arabic; it is
>> > >> > the most hideous, crappy and useless un-Arabic font ever created, my
>> > >> > blood boils every time I see it in use.
>> > >> >
>> > >> Could you summarize what is wrong and report it?
>> > >
>> > > All of it, the Arabic range is utter crap.
>> > >
>> > >> Steve White will
>> > >> certainly fix it (unless it is better toreplace the whole Arabic
>> > >> block).
>> > >
>> > > I did, and even offered to work on replacement, but the offer was turned
>> > > down.
>> > >
>> > >> I see problems with dochachmee he, Urdu words as بھآرت and ؔٹھیک are
>> > >> not displayed properly.
>> > >
>> > > There is no point in looking at the microlevel, the whole thing is
>> > > worthless garbage and should be tossed in the nearest trash bin. Whoever
>> > > designed it has absolutely no idea about Arabic and its design, I take
>> > > it personally and find this garbage an insult to the Arabic script. Show
>> > > a text typeset with it to an Urdu speaker and he is likely to vomit in
>> > > disgust.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>
>>
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