Re: kashida in Arabic text

[Walid Shaari <ws070 at mdx dot ac dot uk>]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 13:13, Sara Mraish wrote: 
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone know about kashida in Arabic text. How does look like and in what
> kind of example does show in. Please help me with this matter I am trying to
> write an Arabic sentence with kashida and trying to see the output without
> kashida.  
Take a look at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/kashida.gif
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-kashida-space

It is used meanly as a cosmetic, alignment tool 

hth

Walid