Comment 3 for bug 827021

I heard from Bruno Maag (at Dalton Maag) that he believes that the Arabic is ready and finalised stylistically.

With that in mind I thought I'd have a play with how the Arabic might work "in the wild", in this case with the Arabuntu عربونتو name. (Don't fear, this is not recommending a design, I just wanted to have a play with a real test-subject).

Khaled: ah, my apologies, I saw your name listed on the front page—you're welcome to unsubscribe from this bug report (or I can do it while you're here).

Although while you /are/ here given your background. I'm intrigued around a couple of things (remember I'm not a native Arabic reader, I _don't_ know what looks/reads better):

  1. Does the kerning between رب matter? I tried tightening it up on the lower ones. Is this better, or worse?
  2. What about the dot placement under 'b', is it an issue if it's slightly to the side.
  3. Does lengthening the baseline on ain work?
  4. Should a starting-intermediate ain (as here) have a slight downstroke at the start to match the rest of the semi-Naskh baseline (see experiment 7). Is this better, or worse?