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Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa degree awarded by the University of Karachi in recognition of his achievement. Ahmad Mirza Jamil ( Urdu: احمد مرزا جمیل; 21 February 1921 – 17 February 2014) [1] was a Pakistani calligrapher best known for creation of Noori style of Nastaliq, which was first created as a digital typeface (font ...
The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq ( Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق ), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.
Noori Nastaleeq is a nastaleeq used in Pakistan. It was first created as a digital font in 1981 as the collaboration between Ahmed Mirza Jamil and Monotype Imaging. In 1982, the Government of Pakistan named the nastaleeq as an "Invention of National Importance". Daily Jang is a user of the nastaleeq. References
InPage. InPage is a word processor and page layout software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian information technology company. It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and macOS. It was first developed in 1994 and is primarily used for creating ...
This template displays Perso-Arabic text in the Nastaliq style, which is used for most documents written in Urdu. The style is also used for Persian poetry and Shahmukhi Punjabi. This template is based on the { {nastaliq|}} template Template:Script/Nastaliq. I made a new one instead of editing the original to avoid breaking existing uses of the ...
The Urdu keyboard is any keyboard layout for Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution. [1] With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanized compositions have reduced to very few that are compatible with the ...
InPage is the only program that could produce Nastaʿlīq text until recently, and it doesn't use Unicode, so Urdu writers didn't bother with Unicode. Nowadays we have freely available Nastaʿlīq Unicode fonts, Nafees Nastaleeq, Jameel Noori Nastaleeq, Pak Nastaleeq, etc., but they don't come standard with Windows and have some problems.
Hindi–Urdu transliteration. Hindi–Urdu (Devanagari: हिन्दी-उर्दू, Nastaliq: ہندی-اردو) (also known as Hindustani) [1] [2] is the lingua franca of modern-day Northern India and Pakistan (together classically known as Hindustan ). [3] Modern Standard Hindi is officially registered in India as a standard written ...