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