Re: Square Arabic

["Chahine M. Hamila" <HALCON11 at terra dot es>]

Klaus Lagally a *crit :

> Let me add some new points on Square Arabic:
>
> Pro:
>   Square Arabic would be an ideal font for symbols in RTL Arabic Math
> (this exists, I just reviewed a thesis on that) just because it looks
> sufficiently different from the running text, and shaping is not needed.

Can you please send references about this thesis? I believe it could be of
interest to this work as well...

>
>
> Con:
>   some fool might mistake it for Hebrew on first glance :-)

LOL:) I guess that would be more or less true for any Semitic language that
is drawn in a "square" mode;) After all, most of today's world's alphabets
are derived from the Phoenician one and Semitic alphabets in particular
have remained quite close to it:)