On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:27:00 -0400, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...>
wrote:

[nb]

>> modern typesetting of Arabic.

[A.D.]

> It seems true for the Naskh style usually used for Arabic but for the
> Nastaleeq style where the letters run along a sloping line and require a
> lot more ligatures, things are only just getting going in computer
> typesetting. Urdu also has to deal with a couple of Unicode odditties
> due to varying shapes of some letters. Nastaleeq is commonly used for
> Urdu. I forget off the top of my head which is preferred for Persian.

I'm really interested to know whether Urdu newspapers are still printed
from handwritten images. My really-modest awareness of the style they use
is that there are a lot of added marks (diacritics?) in that style.

Regards,

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