Word heaping

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Word heaping is a technique used for text justification in Arabic script, in which one word can be placed over another to save space on the line. [1]

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Heap ligatures in Unicode

Arabic Presentation Forms-A has a few characters defined as "word ligatures" for terms frequently used in formulaic expressions in Arabic. A few example ligatures that feature heaping are shown below: [n 1]

References

  1. ↑ Mohamed Jamal Eddine Benatia, Mohamed Elyaakoubi and Azzeddine Lazrek (2006). "TUGboat, Volume 27 (2006), No. 2—Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting: Arabic text justification" (PDF). TeX Users Group.

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