From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 14:31:01 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> I don't think that the Arabic tatweel would fit well in Hebrew text, due to
> the script break and implementation difficulties that such break implies. We
> can accept using characters that are part of the "Common" script, but mixing
> Hebrew and Arabic scripts in the same grapheme cluster is a bad idea.
You've presumably not encountered Karaite documents written in Arabic script with Hebrew
pointing.
http://www.tiro.com/John/karaite.jpg
Note presence of both Hebrew and Arabic marks: the former in red and the latter in green.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC tiro@tiro.com We say our understanding measures how things are, and likewise our perception, since that is how we find our way around, but in fact these do not measure. They are measured. -- Aristotle, Metaphysics
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