On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:28:57PM -0400, Mike Maxwell wrote: > On 8/1/2012 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >I remember specifically testing some Nastaliq fonts and Hans fixing some > >small issues I found, I just tested again now and IranNastaliq seems to > >work (my fork of Nafees Nastaleeq is broken though, but it uses an > >OpenType GDEF feature not supported by LuaTeX's font loader, so this is > >expected and not even Arabic specific). > > I'm interested in this. We have used Nafees Nastaleeq v1.2 (IIRC), > and plan to use it for Punjabi written in Shahmukhi. While this > font works reasonably well in XeTeX, there were a couple things we > were bothered by. But it's been awhile since we last used it, and > we're not experts in this style of Arabic script, so I can't > remember the problems, nor would I be confident enough to say much > about them anyway. > > Have you written up your work on Nastaliq?
My fork is hosted here: https://github.com/khaledhosny/hussaini-nastaleeq I started it a while ago to added missing Arabic support (Nafees Nastaleeq didn't provide Arabic characters that there are different Urdu code points for them), lately I started doing more general work like fixing vowel mark positioning (not complete yet) and utilizing some unusual OpenType aspects to serve as a benchmark for rendering engines and fix some complex issues to possible otherwise (like dynamically positioning the dots to avoid clash in overcrowded contexts). Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
