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Book Publishing in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies: Technological Academic Solutions for Scholars and Academic Publishers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Josef (Yousef) Meri
Josef (Yousef) Meri*
Affiliation:
Amman, Jordan
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1-2 , Summer/Winter 2008 , pp. 97 - 107
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2008

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1 http://www.winsoft.eu

2 http://www.decotype.com

3 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA102113691033.aspx

4 See the slightly dated discussion of OpenType and Unicode support for desktop publishing by Meri, J.W., “Software and Technology Review: Multilingual Computing in Middle East Studies,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 34 (2000): http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/meri%20software.htmGoogle Scholar, and the more recent Wikipedia entry, “OpenType”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType. For a more detailed discussion of OpenType fonts, see Hudson, John, “Windows Glyph Processing: An OpenType Primer,” http://www.microsoft.com/typography/Glyph%20Processing/intro.mspx.Google Scholar

5 http://www.unicode.org

6 On the Macintosh see Vikor, Knut, “The Arabic Macintosh: an Informal Resource Centre,” http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabhome.html.Google Scholar

7 http://www.nisus.com

8 http://www.parallels.com

9 A ridiculous aspect of the present state-of-the-art is that non-trivial Arabic words like Allah and Islam are routinely mis-rendered in practically all Arabic computer fonts. See Milo, Thomas, “Computing and the Qur’an,” in Schlaglichter, die beiden ersten islamiscbenjahrbunderte, GroS, Markus and Ohlig, Karl-Heinz, eds. (Berlin, 2008).Google Scholar

10 http://titus.fkidgl.uni-frankfurt.de/framee.htm?/unicode/unitest2.htm

11 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1504

12 http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_Basic

13 http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm

14 http://www.basistech.com/arabic-editor

15 http://www.transliterator.net

16 http://www.transliterator.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=53

17 http://www.iiu.edu.my/irkhs/rotas/

18 Mulder, Eildert, “Keyboard Calligraphy,” Saudi Aramco World 58 (2007), pp. 34–39, http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200704/keyboard.calligraphy.htm.Google Scholar

19 Remarks from an unpublished conference paper.

20 http://www.winsoft-international.com/en/support/online-registration.html

21 http://www.winsoft-international.com/en/store/print-publishing.html