Tasmeem

Dear Vladimir,

Thank you for your poetic reaction. You are certainly a romantic person.

To get things straight: the Khatt site is put on the web as a tool to meet and to exchange ideas. There is nobody excluded from any sort of contribution to the site. In contrast, all comments and contributions will be received with the warmest welcome.
However, the site is not meant to be a duplication of very specific discussions already going on in other sites. Anybody interested in the travails of Thomas Milo (or others) can choose from a plethora of possibilities to hear his voice or get acquainted with his products. It seems to me that you have a very romantic view on what Tasmeem is doing and not doing. In my view Tasmeem is very much like other proprietary software around and used for showing complicated versions of Arabic type. These types of software all use the same principle, there is very little that makes Tasmeem different. Obviously, there are a lot of different ways to use the ACE (Arabic Calligraphic Engine) in Tasmeem, but it is very confusing to me what DecoType or WinSoft really wish to achieve with their products. Now there appears to be a Tasmeem Tsunami Project, I guess this means that we may expect a deadly shower of new typefaces for Tasmeem anytime soon. If you find new applications of Tasmeem you feel are worth showing I'll be happy to put it on the site. But of course you can also do it yourself.

With the kindest regards,

Edo