- From: Najib Tounsi via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:33:15 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
"I post here, but I wonder if it should not also be in the repository of samples of typographic, just created by Richard." In the absence of a good implementation of Kashida, the justification method of Arabic texts should be spaces. inter-words or intra-words if any. Use of Tatweel only for some simple Arabic fonts. Rational : (a) Some (legacy?) Arabic fonts are quite horizontal at their baseline and the letters always join horizontally. Called also simplified font (with limited number of shapes, e.g. same glyph for initial and medial form, and same shape for end and isolated form) they allow writing of kind typewriter. In general, defaults fonts or sans-serif are of this kind.  (b) Other recent fonts, more in the spirit of cursive Arabic writing, with slightly more curved shapes, allow for a more aesthetic writing : with ligatures, groups of letters, contextual letter shapes with different keystrokes etc. Amiri :  Arabic Typesetting :  The justification with Tatweel (U+0640, ـ , small flat line) goes better to the first type of font (a).  Besides, would not Tatweel be a simplified implantation of Kashida? Arabic Kashida (not a character), is a curve line to elongate between letters or at the end of some letters. It is extensible enough to adapt to individual letter and to the context. I think Kashida is the method well suited to the second kind of writing since it make it possible to maintain the aesthetic of curved lines.  So, in the absence of a good implementation of Kashida, the justification method of Arabic texts should be spaces inter-words or intra-words if any. Instead of Tatweel. Any thoughts? -- GitHub Notification of comment by ntounsi Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/57#issuecomment-280176906 using your GitHub account
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