> On 07/15/2012 06:01 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>> C. I tried to dispatch the Arabic variants in the Latin family they
>>>> were
>>>> >> designed to complement, but I may have misunderstood the design
>>>> info
>>>> >> available online.
>>> >
>>> > Please clarify 'dispatch' :-)
>> Kufi with Sans (masquerading as the Arabic block of Droid Sans) and
>> Naskh
>> with Serif the same way (see the long fontconfig ruleset I referenced)
>>
>>
http://www.29arabicletters.com/foundry/?m=1-1-1&fid=26
>> states Naskh was designed to complement Serif
>>
>> and
>>
https://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=17382
>> that chromium uses Kufi with Sans
>
> That may have been the case, but it is my personal understanding that we
> should dispatch Naskh with both Sans and Serif. Kufi is a horrible font
> for
> body text.
So make kufi a separate family and keep the old droid sans arabic for
sans? Or is it also horrible in some way?
BTW regardless of your answer here, with your former fontconfig maintainer
hat on, how do you make a font family masquerade as parts of two other
font families? If I understand the recipe you gave me for use in Fedora,
after Naskh has been morphed in Serif, it is not available anymore to
morph in Sans. That would be a useful operation to perform for cultures
which had not a western calligraphic separation culture
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot