Re: [minutes] Arabic layout telecon 2017-01-17

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:37:03PM +0100, r12a wrote:
>    Mostafa: The whole idea seems strange to me. Because a main
>    goal in justification is to keep the look of the lines similar.
>    ... To avoid too much space or kashida in one place and less in
>    other places.
>    ... This suggestion is against that goal.
> 
>    Najib: Generally, a quote from Quran is set in a different
>    style that the rest of the text.
>    ... And generally they don’t apply justification to that.
> 
>    Behnam: What happens when a quote spans multiple lines,
>    including lines that only include that Quran quote?

I think it is worse noting that a very common way to typeset Quranic
quotation among Arabic publisher is to use special applications that
inserts the Quranic verses as inline images or special fonts when each
word is a single glyph (usually done to replicate the calligraphic style
of tubular Musahaf, or to overcome the difficulties of properly
typesetting Quran). So I’d not read much in the lack of justification in
some of these examples (threeKindJustify.jpg, for example, clearly uses
one of these methods).

Regards,
Khaled

Received on Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:35:42 UTC