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Hyphenation is another tool used in Roman typesetting but is not always allowed in other writing systems. Since Arabic does not allow hyphenation, another method for justification is needed: _kashidas_ are used to stretch the line. The _kashida_ (or tatweel) is typeface-dependent and varies for each kind of Arabic script. Thus, the rules for inserting the _kashida_ will be in the font, and the publishing application would need to have the capability of using the font (Milo 2001). | ||
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**Figure 1. Use of kashida** | ||
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Another interesting case of different hyphenation methods is Ethiopic. Because Ethiopic was traditionally written using the _Hulet Neteb_ there was no need for a hyphenation character. If a line broke at the end of a word you would see the _Hulet Neteb_ or other punctuation but, if a line broke in the middle of the word, the reader just saw the word break with no hyphen. In Figure 2, line two is “hyphenated,” line one is not. | ||
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**Figure 2. “Hyphenation” in line two with use of Hulet | ||
Neteb (Ethiopic)** | ||
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**Figure 3. “Hyphenation” in line two with use of white space | ||
(Ethiopic)** | ||
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The difficulty now arises that word breaking still sometimes occurs this way but, with software limitations encouraging the use of white space between words (rather than the _Hulet Neteb_), it is difficult to know if there is a complete word at the end of a line or if it is a “broken” word (compare Figure 3 with Figure 2). | ||
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Interesting hyphenation behaviors also occur in some Roman script use, as in the German word “backen” which becomes “bak-ken” when hyphenated (although there are moves for this to be abandoned). Hyphenation rules in the publishing application need to be fully customizable for these types of behaviors. | ||
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## References | ||
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Milo, Thomas. 2001. *“Creating Solutions for Arabic: A Case Study,”* Eighteenth International Unicode Conference, Pre-Conference Tutorials. TC5:6. |
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