Gregg Reynolds wrote: >> Thomas Milo wrote: >> >>> >>> Tatweel is not a grapheme. I have come to the conclusion, that the >>> letter shaping mechanism needs a new catagory: amphibuous >>> (literally "between both", between skeleton and vowel as a >>> category, as well as placed between two surrounding letters - with >>> optional and separately encoded tatweel. This idea handles the >>> problems with hamza U+0621, superscript alef, trailing/superscript >>> retroflex and possibly even the superscript waw. Think of it, if >>> you will. >> It's a lot simpler if you define tatweel as a chameleon instead of a >> frog. ;) It takes on ink or not depending on the inking of its >> neighbors, and it can bear stacking characters. Simple and elegant.
We have now a working amphibious hamza, as well as a Trashideh mechanisme that deals with callgraphically misplaced tatweels. t
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