From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 04:01:35 EDT
--- Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> wrote: > At 08:41
AM 4/24/02 +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > --- Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> wrote: > At
> 03:54
> >> To be clear, even divisions won't *ever* look
> pretty
> >> enough to reproduce in
> >> a Unicode manual (except by accident). This
> >> approach just gives clear
> >> visual feedback that you only selected "a third"
> of
> >> the glyph. No more, no
> >> less.
> >
> >I don't think the feedback will be as clear as you
> >suggest in many cases. Arabic fonts tend to be
> small
> >and have skinny letters. It's hard to tell just
> what
> >is and what isn't selected.
>
> Point taken. Three responses.
>
> 1. Even a few pixels should be distinguishable.
> For example, the mailer
> I'm using has a single-pixel-width cursor. By
> comparison, the cursor we use
> in AbiWord looks beefy to me.
>
> 2. People use zoom. Especially when the @#$^%
> fonts are too small. (Yes,
> this assumes the availability of decent scalable
> fonts for Arabic.)
>
> 3. Do such fonts actually exist? If not, recruit
> someone to make some.
> Please. We write software here. There's only so
> much we can do. :-)
The fonts that come with later versions of Windows
have beautiful Arabic fonts, some of which are very
readable even at small sizes. At least by me, an
English speaker - they may all be readable at small
sizes by native speakers. I don't know about the
quality of existing free fonts.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Paul
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