On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
> > alternate double marks (Fathatan, Kasratan, Dammatan)
> > and some other marks which are used in official Korans of the Islamic
> > countries scribed by Osman Taha; and finally the smaller variants of
> > Fatha, Kasra, and Damma introduced by the Iranian government in the
> > Islamic Republic's official Koran, to help the reader pronounce 'Alef
> > Wasla's when they are starting a sentence.
>
> I guess you won't have the regular wasla as a non-spacing diacritic in your
> proposal, because it's used only with alif in Korans, right? So I can make my
> own proposals about it, Arabic calligraphic ornaments (I'm not so sure about
> this one) and Syriac Edessan vowels and leave the rest to you. OK?
No, we won't have the Wasla in our proposal. I haven't seen any usage
other than over Alef.
(Sorry to reply this late...)
roozbeh
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