On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:26:15PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Furthermore, <alef,quranic madda> ≠ <alef with madda above> > > > > Why?
Because every Mushaf printed in Egypt (and most of the Arabic world) since 1919[1] has a note at the end of Madda description stating that “… and this mark should not be used to indicate an omitted Alef after[sic] a written Alef, as in آمنوا, that were mistakingly put in many Mushafs …”, which to me is a very frank indication that the two marks are not the same thing. Also a vowel mark (which the Quranic Madda is) should not “blend” with its base letter, the same way that U+06C7 is not canonically equivalent to <U+0648,U+064F> etc. Regards, Khaled 1. The date of first Mushaf printed by Al-Azhar where most of the Quranic annotation marks were formalized and standardized. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
