[Indic-computing-users] Re: Enjoy and cooperate... some news from India

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

Thanks a lot Irfan. Permit me to share your posting with the Indic and 
BytesForAll mailing lists. FN

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Irfan Khan wrote:


> dear tee emm and fred,
> 
> i read fred's posting on pluc on urdu computing, in which tee emm has 
> mentioned his wish: a freely downloadable urdu wordprocessor. this 
> needs not only a R-->L or bidi editor/WP but also a font with 
> necessary glyphs. the logic of joining could be part of the font, or 
> hardcoded in the editor/WP.
> 
> 
> here is a free solution for microsoft windows 2000. (not sure about 
> windows 98, which is more common among the endusers). 
> 
> abiword [http://www.abisource.com/ ] is an open source bidi word 
> processor for windows and linux, etc. which works well with urdu 
> locale (in windows 2000: control panel --> regional options; select 
> urdu). for fonts, there are a couple of choices. several fonts 
> shipped with windows 2000 are unicode 3 compliant, and contain almost 
> all urdu characters. alternatively download additional arabic fonts 
> (that include urdu characters) from microsoft
> http://office.microsoft.com/arabicregion/Downloads/2000/arafonts.aspx 
> . other free unicode fonts that include urdu are:
> 
> - Nafees Naskh 	*recommended*
> http://www.crulp.org/nafeesNaskh.html  
> [crulp is also working on a nastaleeq font, funded by apdip]
> 
> - titus cyberbit 
> http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp
> 
> - Urdu Nastaliq Unicode
> http://www.arbornet.org/~tabish/u-font/ 
> [not good looking; nastalique has to be very good...]
> 
> - tehreer/ paktype
> http://www.zaban.net/paktype/
> 
> - asiatype's urdu font (used in, for example, bbcurdu.com) is also 
> good, to be combined with abiword
> 
> 
> other interesting solutions are:
> 
> - unipad [http://www.unipad.org/main/ ] (free version has a limit of 
> 1000 words) implements a unicode solution in a neat, integrated 
> program. worth downloading, just to check.
> 
> - openoffice.org [http://openoffice.org/] supports bidi. an arabic 
> version is also to be released.
> 
> more later,
> 
> irfan
> 
> 

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