Biography:Thomas Milo
Thomas Milo is a Dutch author and digital calligrapher. Milo's 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.[1] In the 1980s his 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.[1] 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.[2]
Together with Bernard Greenberg, Milo is the author of Basis Technology's Arabic editor to handle the German Oriental Society (DMG) transcription method.
More recently DecoType's Tasmeen allows Arabic and Hebrew versions of Adobe Acrobat to be available from WinSoft International.[3]
Bibliolography
- ALI-BABA and the 40 Unicode characters—Towards the ideal Arabic working environment. [4]
- 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.
Milo worked with the Omani Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. http://www.winsoft-international.com/en/products/adobe-acrobat-9-pro.html.
- ↑ 2003 in TUGboat journal, Volume 24, Number 3
External links
- 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/
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US2940575A/en
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