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

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 00:37, Thomas Milo wrote:
>
> The way I solved it is to treat both variants as equivalent. I consider it
> a font problem Some modern fonts are designed to print fathatan on top,
> othere only work well with trailing alif. For instance, the Ottoman Naskh
> that we are working on corrects the order indernally since it can only
> print fathatan against the alif.
>

 That would break regular text (The font will not be usable for regular text)
 
> However, grammatically speaking, dammatan, kasratan and fathatan all reside
> on the letter that governs them.
>
> >   BTW: This mamluki mushaf is not in popular use at all, the most popular
> >           mushaf today is the one printed by QuranComplex as long as the
> >           Shamarly and Haramain Masahef.
>
> Indeed, but these, too, are written according to the rules of classical
> Arabic grammar and never place fathatan on top of (i.e., logically
> following) the trailing alif.
>
> Wa s-salaam,
>

  Please, leave the issue of validating the spelling of the Qur'an to the
  appropriate scholars, if you think a mushaf is misspelled, please talk to
  Al-Azhar about it and question the responsible scholars but we are here
  trying to make the encoded Qur'an looks like the mushaf whether you think
  it's misspelled or not.

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt