> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 20:08, Thomas Milo wrote: > > ayyuhaa saadaatii, > > > > Sorry?
? > > Regarding the sample /luuTa-n/, please compare Q6:86, Q7:80, Q11:77, > > Q21:71, Q21:74, Q27:54, Q29:28, Q29:32, Q29:33 and Q37:133. > > > > The word occurs in various tajweed variations, > > > > Yes of course because it depends on the first letter of the second word. We all know, don't we? > > I all mushafs inspected I can see all variations of fatHatan clearly > > positioned to the right of the alif. The Cairo typographer left tanween > > fatha on top the governing letter in all cases. > > > > The mushafs in Ottoman Naskh style show a strong preference to allow single > > or double fatha _of the preceding letter_ to touch the following alif. > > > > It seems to me like the most popular mushaf by QuranComplex hasn't reached > you yet nor did the older (that are populary used) Haramain, Shamarly nor the > one by the Egyptian ministry of education. > Anyway, I can guess that the masahef you checked are only used for research. No, I am referring to the reprint of the King Fuad Qur'an that was prepared by our partners Tradigital of Cairo (ma`aadii) http://www.tradigital.de/ I would appreciate it if you could scans of a few of the words referred to above as rendered in the Saudi edition. > Please understand that we have the problem of how to display all these > various variations (with the populary used masahef as a priority). > My point is that we need the one mentioned in the sample. I do understand. > Please suggest a way for us to display it like that keeping in mind that > if we positioned fathatan + Alef this way in the font using GPOS tables, > it would break any regular text (The font will become useless for any > regular Arabic text). Having seen you last examples, I think we need to investigate if there aren't already Unicode points that like Zero Width non-joiner that could be used to add the necessary behaviour without creating a new code for what essentially is a superscript alif. t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
