On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:59:14 -0600, Yannis Haralambous
<[email protected]> wrote:
But I believe that straight-line keshideh are very ugly.
In many cases, yes. M$'s 3-level implementation is almost always ugly. But
carefully calibrated, with a good font and appropriately chosen legal
stretching points, there are places where auto-tatweel is typographically
appropriate, like thin columns at small type sizes, or marginal notes.
Even in old manuscripts you can find horizontal tatweel used in poetry and
the like...
One should be able to produce curvilinear ones.
That is indeed the ideal.
Best wishes
Idris
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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
