Re: Sequential Fathatan Final Form (Items 9 and 10)

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:51, Mete Kural wrote:
>
> By the way there is a typo in my last email:
> > > The phenomenon you are referring to - the variance
> >
> > in
> >
> > > the absolute positioning of superscript alef - is
> >
> > not
> >
> > > a graphemic matter, it is a calligraphic matter.
> >
> > The
> >
> > > typeface used in the King Fuad codex prefers to
> > > position the superscript alef there whereas in
> >
> > other
> >
> > > codices the position the superscript alef may be
> > > slightly different, and in regular everyday Arabic
> > > text it can be just above the previous character.
>
> In the above paragraph instead of "superscript alef" I
> meant to say "sequential fathatan". This is what
> happens if you try to write consecutive emails about
> superscript alef and then sequential fathatan :-)
>

 Thanks for explaining.
 Yes, I agree with you that they are indeed but the point is how the font
 can know if the wanted glyph is the regular one (fathatan on top of Alef),
 the one used by most popular masahef (fathatan just a bit to the right of
 Alef). Please note that both are needed here.

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt