Arabic-L:GEN:Urdu font response

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Date: 01 Aug 2006
From: "al-Husein N. Madhany" <anm at post.harvard.edu>
Subject:Urdu font response

Microsoft Office 2003 has available an Urdu language support web site
available here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/arabicdev/Urdu/urdu_support.asp>.
I highly recommend that anyone who uses South Asian language fonts
consult the University of Chicago's South Asian Language Resource
Center's (SALRC) best practices web site:
<http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/>.


By far, one of the better free, comprehensive, Unicode 4.0-compliant,
transliteration systems available is hosted at:
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/software/softwa.htm#Etabelle>.  The
TITUS Cyberbit Basic translation font is a product of an academic
digitization and standardization project.  It contains all the
characters necessary for transliterating the most common Arabic-script
languages including Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu.  The size and
shape of the font resembles Times New Roman, although the space
between the typed lines is larger.  Therefore a single-spaced page of
text composed in TITUS Cyberbit Basic looks like the spacing is
actually one and one-half (1.5) space.  Installation instructions are
available on the above link.  See the beauty of the Arabic-script font
in action here if you still doubt:
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/alphabet/arabtest.htm>.  For
more Unicode scripts that this font supports, see
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest.htm#Etabelle>.


Installing the TITUS Cyberbit Basic (True Type) font is a simple
9-step process.  First, point your browser to:
<http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp>.  Second,
fill in the form.  (If you're worried about privacy, aliases are
permitted.)  Third, select the option 'Self-extracting EXE file' and
then left click the 'Submit'-button.  Fourth, right click on the word
"here" in the sentence "Please download the font now by clicking
here."  You can save the file to your desktop by right clicking on the
word "here" and choosing Save Target As (in EI) or Save Link As… (in
Mozilla).  Fifth, point to your desktop.  After the download is
completed, double left click the file on your desktop to decompress
it.  Seventh, open your 'Fonts' folder (in the Control Panel).
Eighth, drag the TITUSCBZ.TTF font file from your desktop into the
Font folder by left-clicking on the TTF file and moving it into the
Font folder.  Ninth, drop the TTF file into the Font folder.  TITUS
Cyberbit Basic (True Type) has been successfully installed.


Best of luck,
al-Husein Madhany
University of Chicago

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