W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > public-i18n-archive@w3.org > January to March 2017

Re: [alreq] How are underlines positioned in Arabic text?

From: Khaled Hosny via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:21:19 +0000
To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-278654396-1486650078-sysbot+gh@w3.org> 
Here are examples of overline used in Quran, metal type from the 30s:
![img_20170209_160219-small](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/93914/22786996/69635316-eee3-11e6-9a2f-54b03caf88cb.jpg)

and contemporary calligraphy: 
![img_20170209_160501-small](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/93914/22787029/85326b90-eee3-11e6-9884-3951cb61660a.jpg)

In both cases the overline is drawn above all the letters and the 
vowel marks as well.

-- 
GitHub Notification of comment by khaledhosny
Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/86#issuecomment-278654396 using 
your GitHub account
Received on Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:21:26 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Monday, 4 July 2022 18:09:36 UTC