Well, it's nice that they tried, but there's far too much open space in that
specimen -- it looks like they didn't even _attempt_ the necessary
kerning. (Compare the page Nicholas found the other day.)--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...




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From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, May 28, 2011 5:44:27 PM
Subject: Re: World's last handwritten newspaper

 

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
>I'd be surprised if typesetting in an accceptable-looking
> nasta`liq is available -- if only because words or short phrases occupy
>diagonal
>
> spaces within each right-to-left line.

OpenType includes a special type of 'positioning' that joins an arbitrary
sequence of characters in the sloping style required for Nastaliq. An example of
its application is shown at
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/news.aspx?NID=1275> . In principle,
all you need to do is obtain a good font and type in the right sequence of
characters. There may be some issues with the control of line spacing - it seems
an easy thing to foul up, even with nothing worse than the excessive stacking of
superscript or subscript characters.

Richard.

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