The article examins the phenomenon of the typography in the course of the Islamic history. In the Islamic world printing by movable types and printblocks was basically considered ethically unacceptable. The using of such a technology to copy a text written in an Arabic script was illegal. The article asks, how could the society resist the temptation of this innovation and describes the distressful influence of typography on the life of Muslims.
Corpus of contemporary written (printed) Czech sized 4.7 GW (i.e. 5.7 billion tokens). It covers mostly the 1990-2019 period and features rich metadata including detailed bibliographical information, text-type classification etc. SYN v9 contains a wide variety of text types (fiction, non-fiction, newspapers), but the newspapers prevail noticeably. The corpus is lemmatized and morphologically tagged by the new CNC tagset first utilized for the annotation of the SYN2020 corpus.
SYN v9 is provided in a CoNLL-U-like vertical format used as an input to the Manatee query engine. The data thus correspond to the corpus available via the KonText query interface to the registered users of CNC at http://www.korpus.cz with one important exception: the corpus is shuffled, i.e. divided into blocks sized max. 100 words (respecting the sentence boundaries) with ordering randomized within the given document.