From: John Hudson
Message: 894
Date: 2002-11-15
>| - In calligraphic Arabic, some letters go below the precedingEvery Arabic calligraphy style contains vertical as well as horizontal
>| 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 inI believe headlines are still frequently done in this way, but I'm not sure
>Pakistani newspapers?