Arabic type-making in the machine age : the influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908-1993 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:History

Physical Description:1 online resource

ISBN:

9789004349308, 9004349308

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:993752295

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Contents:

Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age: The Influence of Technology on the Form of Arabic Type, 1908-1993; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Typographical Conventions; Note on Terminology; List of Archives; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Arabic Type in the New Millennium; Situating this Book; Aspects of the Arabic Script; The Typographic Representation of the Arabic Script; Arabic Publishing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 2 Mechanical Composition of Arabic; The Industrialisation of Printing; The Beginning of Arabic Mechanical Composition Mergenthaler Linotype's First Arabic Linecaster FountsThe Beginning of Arabic Type-Making at Linotype & Machinery; The Arabic Typewriter; Arabic Script Reform; Nasri Khattar's Endeavours in Arabic Type Design; Ahmed Lakhdar Ghazal and the Asv Codar Type; The Printing Trade and the Middle East after the Second World War; Simplified Arabic, Kamel Mrowa, and Al-Hayat; Simplified Arabic: Proof of Concept; Intertype Abridged Arabic; A New Design: Series 8 with 9; Monotype Hot-Metal Composition; Monotype's First Arabic Typeface: Series 507; A Design for Urdu; A New Typeface for the Middle East Monotype Series 549, the Unwitting Mechanisation of Qurʼān TypographyMonotype Series 589, Full Vocalisation; The Beginning of Computer-Aided Arabic Composition; The Development of Character Selection and Kashida Insertion Routines; 3: Photocomposition: Towards Immaterial Type; Beginnings of a New Technological Era; Arabic on the Monophoto; Expansion of Monotype's Arabic Type Catalogue; Simplified Arabic for Monophoto; Arabic on Linotype Photocomposition Machines; Towards an Arabic Photocomposition Programme; Arabic Type Developments by Linotype-Paul Ltd. A Widening Field, the Emergence of New DevelopersArabic Type by the Photon Company; Endeavours in Arabic Type by Dr Edward Plooij; 4 Persian Type and Typography; Early Persian Printing and Typography; A Simplified Typeface for Persian; Mitra and Nazanin, the Consolidation of a Persian Typographical Identity; 5 Beginnings of Digital Arabic Type; Type Loses its Material Properties; Pierre MacKay and Computer-generated Arabic Type; The KITAB Software for the Hell Digiset; Compugraphic's Venture into Arabic Type; Digital Tools in the Service of the 'Hanging' Styles Nastaʿlīq and Ruqʿä Nastaʿlīq on the Monotype LasercompLinotype Ruq'ah, the Exploration of a Writing Style; Linotype Sheeraz, a New Approach to Arabic Type; 6 Looking Forward: PostScript and Beyond; The End of Machine-dependence; Linotype's Arabic PostScript Programme; Upheaval and Convergence, on the Road to Unicode; Desktop Publishing Tools for Arabic; DecoType; 7 Complexities and Simplifications: Factors in the Evolution of Arabic Type-Making; Progress through Technology; Collaboration between East and West; Cultural Identity Expressed through Type; Radical Innovation and its Limits

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) - University of Reading, UK