Editing Scriptio continua (section)

=== Arabic script ===
{{Main|Rasm}}
Before typewriters, computers and smartphones changed the way of writing, Arabic was written continuously.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} That is easy because 22 letters in Arabic have final, medial and initial forms, which is comparable to initial, or capital, form for the Latin alphabet since the [[Renaissance]]. Six or seven letters in Arabic have only a final form (namely {{lang|ar|ا}}, {{lang|ar|د}}, {{lang|ar|ذ}}, {{lang|ar|ر}}, {{lang|ar|ز}} and {{lang|ar|و}}, as well as {{lang|ar|ء}}) and whenever they occur in a word they are followed by space that was originally as wide as the space between words, creating a clear visual break. There was also no hyphenation either. In the early Quranic manuscripts, all diacritics in the Arabic script were also omitted because pointing or other diacritics did not exist in the Arabic script until the early 2nd millennium, and this form is called ''[[rasm]]''. Rasm is also written continuously without spacing. In all early manuscripts, words were finished on the next line or, in many [[Quranic]] manuscripts, even on the next page. The letter [[hamza]] is the only one of the only letter of the [[Arabic alphabet]] that lacks a final, initial or medial form, only its alone or isolated form, as it is an unlinked letter.