Adam,
I read both your posts above. Besides Huda and Edo nobody seems to be interested in joining this particular forum. I myself fell silent at Edo`s patronizing response to my discussion of Tasmeem. What a pity...here there is this splendid website and forum khtt run by two energetic people with a great many young members from all over the world. khtt can and does play an important role in the multi-cultural world of typography where we can all air our ideas and discuss techniques and trends. I hope we can all put our prejudices (including my own) and differences behind us and try to cooporate to pool our various areas of expertise in such a way that the field of typography and specifically Arabic typography can go forward.
As Adam so ably demonstrates there are many directions that type designers have taken and can take. The Matchmaking project and Tasmeem are only two solutions - there are many more, and in either case we should be able to discuss their merits and criticize their shortcomings without feeling threatened. I still hope that khtt can open itself to frank and amicable discussions in an atmosphere of respect and courtesy. It may be true that anyone can post here but the forums are well `hidden` with no clear updated page of current topics prominently displayed on the first page of this website. It will be ideal if experts like Tom Milo, Nadine Chahine and Adam Twardoch and many others can benefit us from their expertise in this beautiful graphic garden created by Huda and Edo.
With best wishes,
Vladimir