Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> BTW, I heard strange things about baselines, such as that the baseline for > Indic fonts should be near the top of letters, while for good Arabic > typography it should be oblique. Can someone confirm these notions? The baseline of Arabic (in general meaning) typographical fonts (Nasx) is horizontal and must be aligned to the Latin-Cyrillic-Greek baseline. Beside that handwritten scripts like Nastaliq or Tahriri have an oblique baseline for each word. The angle of that secondary baseline is 27.5�, like this: Vladimir Ivanov
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