Hi
I use InDesign with a plug-in for Arabic called Tasmeem. Arabic is usually justified not by changing the width of spaces but by lengthening strokes between words (called kashida or tatweel). An ordinary Arabic font is correctly justified using this technique in InDesign; however Tasmeem makes kashida a manual operation, which gives the user much greater control over the design of individual words, but with the consequence that text is justified western-style, by increasing or decreasing space between words. Often this isn’t a problem, but sometimes a particularly spaced-out line looks very funky in Arabic, and this can be manually fixed easily by just adding the kashida by hand which ordinary Arabic justification would add automatically.
What I’d like to be able to do, therefore, is find lines where the justified spaces are greater than a certain measurement, so that I can manually correct this — is there any way to do this?
Thanks!
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