Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > > Although I do hope to obtain a copy of WWS, in the meantime,
> > > it might be helpful to those of us (anyone else?) who are
> > > here to learn (aren't we all?)... to have a concise glossary
> > > of such terms as one finds in The Unicode Standard book;
> > > specifically, terms in the general category of virama,
> > > candrabindu, tatweel, etc.
> >
> > Those aren't grammatology terms, they're Sanskrit philology terms (the
> > last one seems to be Arabic, though).
>
> Right. Those are just term which are relevant to the text of the Unicode
> Standard. Many of those terms come from typography, but they are often given
> a very special meaning which only makes sense in the context of Unicode.
>
> Tatweel ("تطÙÙSÙ" = "lengthening") is in fact an Arabic typographic term.
>
> It is a special glyph (resembling "_"), which is used in lead typography to
> lengthen the space between letters, in order to justify the text on both
> sides. Notice that, to obtain the same effect, Western typography lengthens
> the blank space between words.
Ah. We call them "extenders."
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Peter T. Daniels
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