Re: Question about small noon

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>> Thomas Milo wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Tatweel is not a grapheme. I have come to the conclusion, that the
>>> letter shaping mechanism needs a new catagory: amphibuous
>>> (literally "between both", between skeleton and vowel as a
>>> category, as well as placed between two surrounding letters - with
>>> optional and separately encoded tatweel. This idea handles the
>>> problems with hamza U+0621, superscript alef, trailing/superscript
>>> retroflex and possibly even the superscript waw. Think of it, if
>>> you will.
>> It's a lot simpler if you define tatweel as a chameleon instead of a
>> frog.  ;)  It takes on ink or not depending on the inking of its
>> neighbors, and it can bear stacking characters.  Simple and elegant.

We have now a working amphibious hamza, as well as a Trashideh mechanisme
that deals with callgraphically misplaced tatweels.

t