Justification of Arabic Text: what's next?
A talk by Kamal Mansour
As colleagues in the typographic community have recently proclaimed, the present approach for justification of Arabic text leaves much to be desired. What are the causes of the reported deficiencies? We begin by exploring the specific requirements of Arabic text, followed by a brief overview of pre-digital approaches to text justification. Amplifying our exploration, we propose a comprehensive, designer-driven approach to text justification that could be assimilated into the OpenType Specification.
