Behnam Esfahbod

Mixed-script counters (Persian and European numbers) and bidi layout, from "ketaab-e jom'e, 1st issue, 1st year, 1358": and Observations: * Counters are set in Persian numerals inside the text, but...

Same source: On the last page of the article, footnote are put in a footer section that's below the text, but above the space filler image:

Thanks for the samples and info, @mostafah! I think now we're ready to start the drafting for this. Also, related to this topic is defining the *superscript* behavior for the...

https://www.tug.org/tugboat/tb27-2/tb87benatia.pdf Benatia, Mohamed Jamal Eddine, Mohamed Elyaakoubi, and Azzeddine Lazrek. "Arabic text justification." TUGboat 27.2 (2006): 137-146.

Looks like Adobe Illustrator is trying to provide options for hyphenation, but the UI actually doesn't make much sense for Arabic text, so I assume they apply the same Latin...

From https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#hyphens-property > When shaping scripts such as Arabic are allowed to break within words due to ‘break-all’, the characters must still be shaped as if the word were not...

From http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/ Unicode® Standard Annex #14 UNICODE LINE BREAKING ALGORITHM > Hyphenation, and therefore the SHY, can be used with the Arabic script. If the rendering system breaks at that...

From https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text/

I looked at a bunch of Persian newspapers from this week, couldn't find a single instance of Hyphenation. My guess is that they all turn it off because of law...

From "ketaab-e jom'e" from early 1980s: Sample 1: "دیوان - سالاری" across lines. Sample 2: "ویژه - نامه‌ها" and "حتّی - المقدور" across lines, consecutive. Sample 3: "می - کنند"...