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Cursive vs Kashida - What's the difference?

cursive | kashida |

As nouns the difference between cursive and kashida

is that cursive is a cursive character, letter or font while kashida is a type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.

As an adjective cursive

is running; flowing.

cursive

English

(wikipedia cursive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Running; flowing.
  • Having successive letters joined together.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cursive character, letter or font.
  • A manuscript written in cursive characters.

    • Antonyms

    * print

    Derived terms

    * cursively * cursiveness

    See also

    * handwriting * italic * longhand * shorthand ----

    kashida

    English

    (wikipedia kashida)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference
    • Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...
  • (countable) A character representing this elongation.
  • * 1994 , Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography
    • Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas ...
  • * 2002 , John Ayres, The tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API, Windows 2000 edition
    • However, there is no option for determining whether or not the Arabic Kashidas will be ignored; they will always be ignored in Arabic character sets.

    Synonyms

    * tatweel, tatwil

    See also

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