Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for
Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh—the style most commonly used …

For many years, tools authoring for e-documents composition has been tailored for the
English script's needs. The localization of these tools to Arabic alphabet based writings is …

The Arabic script allows the replacement of certain character sequences by more compact
forms called ligatures. Such ligatures lack a systematic analysis despite their importance in …

Alors qu'Ω ne cesse d'évoluer et ses fonctionnalités de se diversifier et de s' élargir, on s'
aperçoit que les méthodes utilisées pour permettre la composition des langues orientales …

We present new approaches to Arabic font development for AlQalam. In order to achieve an
output quality close to that of Arabic calligraphers, we try to model the pen nib and the way it …

The Arabic script has always been defined as very different from Latin-derived scripts.
However, they share a common root and through the time the Arabic script was adapted to …

Historically, the Qur'anic book is now over one thousand years old. To narrow down the
scope of my study, I have adopted printing as a point of departure to think about “the book as …

The notion of heteroglossia, developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, refers to extralinguistic aspects of
languages such as perspective or ideological positioning. Heteroglossia is a way to …

The connected allograph representing calligraphic Arabic word does not appear individually
in any calligraphic resource but in association with other letters all adapted to each other …

In the Arabic calligraphy, the graphic segmentation of word is far from being an evident task.
The problem consists in finding for every letter constituting the word, a point of cutting which …