From: John Hudson ([email protected])
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 [email protected] 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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