Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

Mete Kural wrote:

> Basically what I am suggesting you is to do this intellectual
> exercise in morphemic encoding design at the markup level, not at the
> character encoding level. That's where it belongs. That is partly why
> initiatives such as TEI and OSIS exist. I suggest that you read up on
> TEI and OSIS and think about ways to extend them to support detailed
> text analysis of Arabic.

Actually, the way to go is to do an abstract design.  Then you can map 
abstract semantic units to either level.  E.g. [[neg-particle-laa]] can 
map either to a codepoint in an encoding design or an element in an xml 
language, according to your taste.  Everybody's happy!

-g