A big reason nastaliq is not widely available on our screens is because rendering it correctly requires 'context sensitive shape substitution'[1]. Simple substi

A big reason nastaliq is not widely available on our screens is because rendering it correctly requires 'context sensitive shape substitution'[1]. Simple substitution of one character for another is not enough. I've spent a couple of hours looking at how to render my own text, perhaps using something like http://typeface.neocracy.org/ http://typeface.neocracy.org/, but my day to day work is so far from text layout, rendering, client side javascript that it would be (too) large an undertaking. [1] http://ww.cle.org.pk/Publication/papers/2006/context_sensitive_shape_substitution.pdf http://ww.cle.org.pk/Publication/papers/2006/context_sensiti... [PDF]