Re: How to draw Arabic letters?

xeeniseit wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I'm going to learn Arabic, but I've a problem about the writing. I know
> the shapes of the letters, but I've no idea about how I must analyse
> them into simple pen movements. I don't know, for example, which way to
> begin the curl of mediate mim; whether (and how) emphatic ta and za are
> written in one draw or with breaking the draw and restarting it etc.
> Does anybody know of an internet site where this is explained in
> details? Thanks in advance,

If you aren't going to have a teacher, then you can get a wide variety
of books introducing you to writing Arabic -- just about every publisher
with an Arabic textbook has a separate manual for the script, or else
it's included in the first five or ten lessons.

Ta and Za are a big loop with a vertical bar added.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...