Abstract
This paper is about developing a multi-lingual font for Pashto, Arabic, Urdu and Persian in such a way that the text for these four languages can be typed in it. Main purpose for developing fonts was to handle and remove many problems faced in earlier fonts. Fonts developed as a part of this work are ligature-based and text for all four languages (Pashto, Arabic, Urdu, and Persian) can be written in a single font. The paper is structured as follows: Shortcomings of existing fonts based on Arabic script and some text editors are discussed in Section-I. Section-II discusses the proposed solution to all those limitations. In Section-III, is about implementation of suggested solution, and Section-IV discusses features of the suggested solution. Section-V concludes the paper and Section-VI discusses future work discussed for Arabic typography.
Highlights
Some existing fonts based on Arabic script, including Pashto, Urdu, and Persian, are used in different bilingual text editors, and their limitations are pointed out
Some of the available text editors are discussed in the following lines: Inpage 2.40
Each Inpage font has a limited number of glyphs for all the letters to make a complete text in Arabic script [3]
Summary
Some existing fonts based on Arabic script, including Pashto, Urdu, and Persian, are used in different bilingual text editors, and their limitations are pointed out. Inpage has still some problems to be faced by every user: [1] No support to use .ttf or .otf fonts for Urdu, Pashto, Arabic and Persian Text. It has its own font family (.utf) for Arabic script [2]. My personal experience in graphics designing and typing mostly in Pashto, Urdu, Persian and Arabic was very beneficent for me to work with existing fonts, to draw its limitations and to suggest another system which solves those problems and proposed a complete font in all aspects. Each font optionally provides alternate shaping behavior to be used for specific languages within different contexts
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