The generation of Arabic typefaces

Glyphs
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I just started to work through your lists. You added some glyphs that I think are not needed.

e.g:

The first one has the unicode 06BF, but the other three are not encoded. So I think you don't need a glyph for them. What you need is to decompose the glyph into tcheh-ar and dotabove-ar in the ccmp feature like this: sub tchehDot-ar by tcheh-ar dotabove-ar;

I will see if I can add the ccmp substitutions automatically.

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I am working on a file GlyphData now

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26680111/glyphs.html

I will complete the rest

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are you sure about this:

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This is the right thing
hehgoal-ar.fina=ae-ar.fina

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another questions:

here the media and final form has dots below Here there are no dots. The fonts I have do not have dots for both.
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Mr. George my eyes crossed when I was working on this file and, I have to re-arrange and classify Arabic (typefaces) , but still there is a lot needs to re-adjust and classification

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26680111/GlyphData%20copy.xml

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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26680111/Error%20Marks.mp4

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Sir George
All the arabic Glyphs which are located within the property Discretionary Ligatures do not need to decompose because they contain a new form is completely different from the basic shape of his

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I know about the different shapes for some ligatures. Not all components are meant to be kept. But may be used as the basis to draw the proper glyph.

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Will not be utilized in something, this list of most frequently dotless
It is such an example here dozens

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Are the Dot-less (in red) are considered discretionary ligatures ?
I cannot see them in components list.

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Falls under the list discretionary ligatures A large number of
Dot-less
The model only to clarify some

Glyphs application is not a reference to the Arabic fonts in order to find all The Dot-less

Between lists and by following we have added manually during the font design

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Sir George
There are important programmatic codes should work automatically in Glyphs App rather than add them manually every time

required ligatures
sub alef-ar lam-ar.init alef-ar.fina by alef_lam_alef-ar;
sub alef-ar lam-ar.init alefHamzaabove-ar.fina by alef_lam_alefHamzaabove-ar;
sub alef-ar lam-ar.init alef-ar.fina by alef_lam_alef-ar;
sub alef-ar lam-ar.init alefHamzabelow-ar.fina by alef_lam_alefHamzabelow-ar;

discretionary ligatures
sub alef-ar lam-ar.init by alef_lam-ar.init;

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Sir George
Is there a possibility to adjust the marks in Glyphs, once the key press Control + U?
Away so that the mark on the glyph automatically by a certain amount as in the picture

This will make the process of adjusting the marks that quick, especially the arabic fonts depends entirely on the marks

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