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From: macrakis@marat.osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Does intercharacter glue exist in TeX?
Keywords: Arabic, intercharacter glue
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Date: 15 Dec 89 16:19:18 GMT
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Note that in Arabic-script typesetting, the standard way
to fill out a line is with longer connectors between the
letters, and not with more space between words.  The longer
connector is typically between the last two letters of the
last word of the line, but sometimes (in formulae such as
"b-ismi l-laahi r-rahmaani r-rahiim" after the first letter.

And you can get more complicated than that.

	-s