Although much has changed since the introduction of computer typesetting, many aspects of Arabic typography have changed little in comparison to thirty years ago. Having said that, developments in the support of Arabic typography are not as rapid as the pace of wider technological advances would suggest. The observations in this discussion are always temporary, since software updates may change the situation over night. It provides the background for the observations that follow, discussing how text can be justified in current software environments. In the first post of this series, I summarised a brief history of typographic justification of Arabic.
