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Main text and block quotations

• Arabic-only paragraphs, vocalised: 13 pt Emiri, set on alternating standard baseline grid lines (i.e., double grid line spacing)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Kashidah Short
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 350, Overlap: 100; Internal Word Spacing: 180, Overlap: 10
• mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic paragraphs, with Arabic vocalised: 12 pt Emiri, leading must be sufficient to avoid clashes with lines above and below (up to 24 pt leading may sometimes prove necessary, but leading should never be too large either). Leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Kashidah Short
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 350, Overlap: 100; Internal Word Spacing: 180, Overlap: 10
• Arabic-only paragraphs, unvocalised: 13 pt Emiri, leading 20 pt (i.e., not on the baseline grid)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Meem Closed
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 400, Overlap: 40; Internal Word Spacing: 150, Overlap: 10
• mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic paragraphs, with Arabic unvocalised: 12 pt Emiri, leading must be sufficient to avoid clashes with lines above and below (up to 18 pt leading may sometimes prove necessary, but leading should never be too large either). Leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Meem Closed
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 400, Overlap: 40; Internal Word Spacing: 150, Overlap: 10

Bibliographies

• Arabic vocalised: 12 pt Emiri, not on baseline grid – leading up to 24 pt to avoid clashes (not too much, though)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Kashidah Short
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 350, Overlap: 100; Internal Word Spacing: 180, Overlap: 10
• Arabic unvocalised: 12 pt Emiri, not on baseline grid – leading up to 18 pt to avoid clashes (not too much, though)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Meem Closed
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 400, Overlap: 40; Internal Word Spacing: 150, Overlap: 10

Footnote text, indexes

• Arabic-only paragraphs, vocalised: 11 pt Emiri, leading 21 pt (i.e., not on the baseline grid)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Kashidah Short
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 350, Overlap: 100; Internal Word Spacing: 180, Overlap: 10
• mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic paragraphs, with Arabic vocalised: 11 pt Emiri, leading must be sufficient to avoid clashes with lines above and below (up to 21 pt leading may sometimes prove necessary, but leading should never be too large either). Leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Kashidah Short
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 350, Overlap: 100; Internal Word Spacing: 180, Overlap: 10
• Arabic-only paragraphs, unvocalised: 11 pt Emiri, leading 17 pt (i.e., not on the baseline grid)
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Meem Closed
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 400, Overlap: 40; Internal Word Spacing: 150, Overlap: 10
• mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic paragraphs, with Arabic unvocalised: 11 pt Emiri, leading must be sufficient to avoid clashes with lines above and below (up to 18 pt leading may sometimes prove necessary, but leading should never be too large either). Leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Emiri Meem Closed
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: External Word spacing: 400, Overlap: 40; Internal Word Spacing: 150, Overlap: 10

These settings are defaults. Brills production editors may specify different settings in exceptional case, in consultation with Maaike Langerak. These include Arabic and Persian poetry, and close approximations of textual material found in manuscript sources (including papyri).

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Main text and block quotations

• Arabic-only paragraphs, unvocalised: 13 pt Naskh, with 24 pt leading
  • Tasmeem Text Shaping Preset: Naskh Standard
  • Tasmeem Arabic Spacing: Classic typography

Other elements’ settings: TBA

Download PDF with a summary for Typesetters (Emiri font)

Brill Production Editors must send a copy of the PDF in the link below containing Emiri Arabic typesetting instructions, a summary of the above text (DT Naskh is not treated, only Emiri):

• with each new book project
• in the case of journals, regularly (whenever a batch of articles is sent on to the typesetters, or every two months, whichever is the more frequent)

The reason for this is that we have noticed that even those typesetters who regularly deal with Arabic typesetting sometimes forget to apply these settings. It may be forgetfulness, or new staff may have been put to work on Arabic, and they may be unaware of the need to apply specific settings to specific types of Arabic text. When the settings are not applied, this will lead to complaints from authors, so please avoid this by regularly sending the Emiri instructions. Download the document entitled Typesetting Arabic: Tasmeem software and the DT Emiri font

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In the settings for the Amiri typeface the font sizes for vocalised and unvocalised Arabic script are kept the same:

• Inline text (mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic paragraphs) 11 pt. Leading: default BTS leading, but avoid clashes with lines above and below. In case clashes should occur, leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
• Arabic-only paragraphs 11 pt, (unvocalised text:) leading 18 pt
• Block quote text 11 pt, leading 1.5 gridstep
• Bibliography text 10 pt
• Footnote text 10 pt, Arabic-only footnotes: leading 16,5 pts. Inline text (mixed ‘Latin’-Arabic footnotes): default BTS leading, but avoid clashes with lines above and below. In case clashes should occur, leading must be adjusted individually for each line of text containing Arabic words or phrases.
• Chapter titles (books)/Article titles (journals): Amiri Bold 16 pt, leading 30 pt

Marking emphasis

There is no generally agreed method of marking emphasis in Arabic type. Traditionally, a contrasting color was used. One may also use another type style, for instance Nastaliq in an otherwise Naskhi context, but some authors object to this. Some authors demand bold Arabic type, but the DecoType fonts are not available in bold style. Bold text can be applied in the (OpenType) Amiri font used by TAT Zetwerk (AsiaType also have this font). Note that the behavior of this font cannot be adjusted in the Tasmeem plug-in: it only has OpenType functionalities.

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