I don’t think making a distinction between the tatweel encoded character and the kashida as a justification device is that helpful. The encoded character can probably be traced back to early computer systems where every glyph was an encoded character, which in turn can be traced to the metal typesetting practices of using using kashida sorts with different widths for justification (among other methods like alternate glyphs and varying word spacing). So IMHO they are the same thing, just done differently for different media (calligraphy vs metal type vs early computing systems vs modern ones) and I don’t think we should put much emphasis on the differences, they are just implementation details. -- GitHub Notification of comment by khaledhosny Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/57#issuecomment-281415369 using your GitHub accountReceived on Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:28:39 UTC
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