Dear All, including OSS overloads :-),

Nafees Web Naskh has been released Open Source GPL (not LGPL or BSD).
It can certainly be included in Linux distros and OO. There should
not be a problem.


regards,
Sarmad

P.S. you can treat this email official on behalf of CRULP.



On 5/13/06, jessbody@... <jessbody2000@...> wrote:
> With regard to NWN font, can someone make clear if the NWN can be
> included in Linux distros or with OO. Although, the NWN license seems
> to allow this, but the OSS overlords loathe to read custom licenses,
> and thus prefer LGPL or BSD. Can the NWN be released under one of
> these standard licenses, perhaps under a different name?
>
>
>
> --- In urdu_computing@yahoogroups.com, Shariq Mustaquim
> <shariqmus@...> wrote:
> >
> > Another point that I want to point out is the fact
> > Nafees Web Naskh font gets substituted in Opera browser.
> > I dont know the reason behind this but Opera simply
> > refuses to show NWN and substitues with Arial/Sans etc.
> > Opera is a popular browser and it is recommended that this
> > issue be resolved.
> >
> > To reproduce bahaviour:
> >
> > Just visit http://jang.net/urdu using Opera.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Shariq Mustaquim
> > Founding Editor
> > http://www.boriat.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Aijaz Akhtar <aijazakhtar@...>
> > To: urdu_computing@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, 12 May, 2006 9:59:59 AM
> > Subject: [Urdu Computing] Re: Limitations of urdu webpage and HTML
> >
> > Another matter too is better to discuss here. The query was in fact
> > for the feature of MS Word that 'autoformats' a numbered list. Yes,
> > most of the features in most applications are
> > "western-script-centric'. Even the keyboard one uses, US, UK or
> > Dvorak, they are all tuned to Western latin script. Thus the Caps lock
> > feature does not work while typing in Urdu (when you select Urdu as
> > Input method in the Operating System, or type on a specific Urdu
> > writer software.). Nor you can make use of Change Case feature. If in
> > your phonetic keyboard "j" is mapped with "Jeem" and Capital "J" with
> > "Zuad", a short cut key of Word (Shift F3 for toggling case) would not
> > work if you want to change Jeem to Zuad or vice versa, through the
> > change Case option. Unless an advanced Urdu word processor introduces
> > such features, we have to be content with MS Word / Frontpage or even
> > Ooo. Hence preference of some web developers for the plain
> > notepad/text editor as the web page creator.
> > Even if you want to use Word as a web designer s/w, there is another
> > feature of MS Word that is adverse to Urdu. In case of an absence of a
> > character in the selected font, it shows the character in its page,
> > befooling you that it has used that character. But what it does is
> > that it actually substitutes Times New Roman or Arial font for that.
> > Thus, e.g., you are using Urdu Naskh Asia Type, and add takhallus mark
> > in a Ghazal of a poet, Word will show the mark all right, as it makes
> > do with Arial/Times not finding takhallus in Urdu Naskh Asiatype font.
> > But when the web page is on line and a user accesses this page on a
> > system with Urdu Naskh Asiatype installed, BUT NOT THE UPDATED
> > ARIAL/TIMES NEW ROMAN fonts, (s)he finds only rectangles in place of
> > Takhallus.
> > I have been researching on Urdu fonts lately and will post more on
> > that later.
> > Aijaz
> >
> > --- In urdu_computing@yahoogroups.com, Me <nua_pk@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear All
> > >
> > > Can any body kindly suggests some points that what are the
> > > limitations of an urdu web page while we use an HTML for urdu web
> > > page making. Like for example
> > >
> > > 1. we cant use the List item in urdu webpage as it doest have alif
> > > bay jeem type of list wehave to use 123 or abc kind of list in
> > > ordered list.
> > >
> > > 2. Editing a webpage is also a very difficult task .
> > >
> > > I cant think more righ now but i would like if every one can add
> > > limitations they have faced would make my list much longer .
> > >
> > > Waiting for help
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
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Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
National University of Compter and Emerging Sciences
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