Thomas Milo wrote: >>> 1. Mohamed Zakariya told me sequential tanween was practised in the >>> North African tradition. >> >> Hmm.. interesting information. Do you know since what century it has >> been used? By the way when you say North Africa are you also >> referring to Egypt or do you mean that it's a Maghribi tradition? > >He must have meant North Africa because > >A. he spent maney years in Morocco >B. I have a Magribi style mushaf that uses sequential tanween. There they >are always aligned horizontally, which gave me the idea that they were >"sequential tanween" in the first place.
Very interesting. Thanks for the information. >>> 2. I concur that a clean encoding should leave tanween as such intact >>> (whether it is encoded as fatha-fatha of fathatan etc would be >>> immaterial) so that the phonetic variants need a separate code point. >> >> I agree with you that the best way to handle this is to keep the >> tanween intact and use a special codepoint that comes after the >> tanween codepoint in order to trigger the variant sequential tanween >> glyph. > >I hope you get my point that encoding tanween as sequential harakat has the >additional bonus that it also keeps i`raab intact: one can scan again for >/yawma/ to hit both /yawma-n/ and /al-yawma/. That is a good point. So in that case canonical equivalence has to be declared for fatha+fatha=fathatan, damma+damma=dammatan, and kasra+kasra=kasratan. Also an additional special codepoint that triggers the variant tanween glyph is needed as well. Regards, Mete -- Mete Kural Touchtone Corporation 714-755-2810 --
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