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عبّارة الليل
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٣٤عبّارة الليل
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٣٥Chapter opening with an emphasised first word, a running head and a scene-break ornament.
Development alpha. Not available for download yet.
Six kinds of book. Two directions.
Each spread opens the way its book reads. Arabic books open right to left, English books left to right.
Placeholder spreads, drawn for this page. Before launch, each is replaced by a spread exported from Oktob, from a sample book written for the site.
The house on the harbour12
1964
The year the ferry stopped
My mother kept the timetable on the kitchen wall long after the last crossing.
13A dated chapter opening with a Latin drop cap.
البحر
يَأْتِي المَسَاءُ عَلَى مَهَلٍ
وَيَتْرُكُ المَوْجَ لِلضَّوْءِ
أَمُرُّ عَلَى المِينَاءِوَالرِّيحُ تَسْأَلُنِي
عَنْ مَرْكَبٍلَمْ يَعُدْ بَعْدُ
١٠Centred verse and paired verse with full tashkil.
The sun climbed the hill to say hello.
And the moon came down to swim.
Picture-book mode: the spread is the unit, with styled text boxes on the art.
Part two · Ports
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Crossings by decade
| Decade | Crossings |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 4,210 |
| 1960s | 2,9751 |
¹ Harbour records, 1970.
89A table preset and a footnote at the foot of the page.
Short stories, the sixth type, uses the novel's chapter tools with a story per section.
In the app
Every type starts from a template.
Pick the kind of book, a template and a page size, then write. Every type works in Arabic or English.
Your book, in your language, in its own direction.
Join the waitlist. We write when there is something you can try. Nothing else.
Development alpha. Not available for download yet.