Re: Greek characters in IPA usage

From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 01:01:52 CDT

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    On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:13:01PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
    > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:00 -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
    > > See also: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/arabetics/mutamathil/ and related
    > > fonts by the same manufacturer. The plan here is to devise an Arabic
    > > font that remains legible (with only some retraining) with no shaping,
    >
    > That is exactly taking the tricks that was used for glyph unifications
    > in older Arabic character sets to the next level.

    Such attempts can be traced to early 20th century, when Arabic metal
    typesetting were a expensive and time consuming process, [1] provides a
    good summary of it, [2] discusses the design details of three proposals.
    However, drastic simplifications never gained mainstream acceptance.

    Regards,
     Khaled

    [1] http://www.sakkal.com/articles/simplified_arabic/survey.html
    [2] http://omega.enstb.org/yannis/pdf/arabic-simpli98.pdf

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




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