> Mohammed, Nadim, and Abdulhaq, in that case you should > be able to re-design your Quran font as an OpenType > font and implement the behaviour that Tom is > suggesting for tanweens and other cases. As he says, > it seems that OpenType already handles dynamically > substituting a single glyph for a sequence of > codepoints. This way additional characters will not be > necessary except for a new "chairless hamza" and a new > logical character for trigerring variant tanween > glyphs (are there any others?)
In order to cut through the red tape, I suggest to build the correct Arabic-alone behaviour for hamza using U+0621. We successfully did that already for sequences like lam-hamza-alif. We are still working on sequences of the type yaa'-hamza-<any connecting letter> as in /y� yaHy�/. In the mean time, a proposal should be made to add a new Arabic letter floating hamza to the standard that is conditionally equivalent to U+0621. t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
