RE: in the NEW YORK TIMES today, report of a USA patent for a methodto make the Arabic language easier to read/write/typeset

From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 19:55:32 EST

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    > [Original Message]
    > From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
    >
    > > [Original Message]
    > > From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
    > >
    > > In the NEW YORK TIMES today
    > > comes a report of a USA patent for a new version of written Arabic
    > > letters, designed to make them easier to read/write/typeset without
    > > making them too different from traditional Arabic script:
    > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/technology/15patent.html -
    > >
    > > The piece includes a photo of the new style.
    >
    > For those who are interested, a text-only version of the patents
    > are available at the US Patent Office website [1]. The relevant
    > patent numbers are 6,701,446 and D435,584.

    Sorry that's 6,704,446 not 6.701,446.

    Also, if you download a special multipage TIFF viewer
    you can view images of the pages at 300 dpi resolution.



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