* Marco Cimarosti
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| - In calligraphic Arabic, some letters go below the preceding
| letter, rather than on its side. If many such "descending letter"
| follow each other in a word, the height of the line of text
| containing that word must be increased accordingly. But this
| characteristic is not easily reproduced in typography so, in modern
| printed texts, all letters follow each other horizontally.

Does Nashtaliq have this characteristic? From what I've seen of it it
seems to, but there could be other reasons as well.

And is it true that Nashtaliq writing is still drawn by hand in
Pakistani newspapers?

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