On Thursday 17 June 2004 00:37, Thomas Milo wrote: > > The way I solved it is to treat both variants as equivalent. I consider it > a font problem Some modern fonts are designed to print fathatan on top, > othere only work well with trailing alif. For instance, the Ottoman Naskh > that we are working on corrects the order indernally since it can only > print fathatan against the alif. >
That would break regular text (The font will not be usable for regular text) > However, grammatically speaking, dammatan, kasratan and fathatan all reside > on the letter that governs them. > > > BTW: This mamluki mushaf is not in popular use at all, the most popular > > mushaf today is the one printed by QuranComplex as long as the > > Shamarly and Haramain Masahef. > > Indeed, but these, too, are written according to the rules of classical > Arabic grammar and never place fathatan on top of (i.e., logically > following) the trailing alif. > > Wa s-salaam, > Please, leave the issue of validating the spelling of the Qur'an to the appropriate scholars, if you think a mushaf is misspelled, please talk to Al-Azhar about it and question the responsible scholars but we are here trying to make the encoded Qur'an looks like the mushaf whether you think it's misspelled or not. -- Mohammed Yousif Egypt _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
