Thomas Milo
Thomas Milo is a Dutch author and digital calligrapher typographer. Milo is a Unicode Bulldog Award recipient.[1] and his involvements have included digitizing Arabic Script. Educated at Amsterdam and Leiden, Tom Milo studied Slavonic, Turkic, Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian, Lebanese and Moroccan Arabic.[2]
Together with Bernard Greenberg, Milo is the author of Basis Technology's Arabic editor to handle the German Oriental Society (DMG) transcription method.
DecoType[edit]
In the 1980s Thomas Milo's company, DecoType created The Arabic Calligraphic Engine which provided the Arabic examples for the printed editions of the Unicode Standard and was licensed to Microsoft as Graphite. ACE interpreted the special orthographic rules so letterform combinations could be weaved into special ligature forms.[2] In order to make the larger repertoire of Arabic in Unicode accessible, Basis Technology and DecoType jointly developed the ALI input method editor and thus allows you to enter complex, fully vocalized Arabic orthography with a Latin keyboard. Daniel Alan Brubaker, author of Corrections in Early Qurʾān Manuscripts: Twenty Examples, used Milo’s system for transcription of un-disambiguated archigraphemes.[3]
More recently DecoType's Tasmeem allows Arabic and Hebrew versions of Adobe Acrobat to be available from WinSoft International.[4][5]
DecoType Naskh provided the System font for Apple Mac OS. DecoType Nastaliq and DecoType Ruq‘ah were recognised by the Type Directors Club annual typographic design competition.
Mushaf Muscat[edit]
Thomas Milo worked with the Omani Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs facilitating it becoming a voting member of the Unicode Consortium.[6] In 2017 Sultanate of Oman unveiled the Mushaf Muscat, a searchable, interactive calligraphic Quran, claimed to be the World's first.[7][8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Ali Baba and the 40 Unicode characters—Towards the ideal Arabic working environment.[9]
- Computing and the Qurʾān - Some caveats, 2007
In 2008 Milo published Arabic Amphibious Characters: phonetics, phonology, orthography, calligraphy and typography in M. Gross & K-H. Ohlig's 2008 Vom Koran zum Islam. In 2013 he contributed Arabic Typography, to Brill Publishers 2013 Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.
References[edit]
- ↑ The Unicode® Bulldog Award
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 unicode.org Biography: Thomas Milo - DecoType
- ↑ Corrections to Hythem Sidky’s review of "Corrections in Early Qurʾān Manuscripts: Twenty Examples", 2021 Daniel Alan Brubaker
- ↑ "Adobe Acrobat Professional software – Communicate and collaborate with the essential PDF solution, enhanced features for Central and East European and Middle Eastern users". Winsoft-international.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Meri, Josef (Yousef). “Book Publishing in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies: Technological Academic Solutions for Scholars and Academic Publishers.” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 1/2, 2008, pp. 97–107. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23063548. Accessed 23 May 2021
- ↑ "The Unicode Consortium Members". Unicode, Inc. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
- ↑ Martin Lejeune, 15 June 2017, Oman unveils world’s 1st interactive calligraphic Quran
- ↑ Anna Zacharias, 27 July 2017, World's first interactive online Quran launched, thenationalnews.com
- ↑ 2003 in TUGboat journal, Volume 24, Number 3
External links[edit]
- Mushaf Muscat
- Youtube: The pivotal role of Arabic script grammar in the transition from manual to mechanized text
- https://www.myfonts.com/person/Tom_Milo/
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