RE: Typing arabic for non-arabic speaker

["Timothy A. Gregory" <tgregory at tarjema dot com>]

The Fatha/Kasra/Dhamma on the MS system are shifted Q, W, E, R, A and S
(Q= Fatha, R= Fathatan, E = Dhammah, R= Dhammatan, A = Kasra and S =
Kasratan)

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Timothy A. Gregory            tgregory at tarjema dot com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: doc-admin at arabeyes dot org [mailto:doc-admin at arabeyes dot org] 
> On Behalf Of Gimson Ahmed
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:38 AM
> To: doc at arabeyes dot org
> Subject: Typing arabic for non-arabic speaker
> 
> 
> Salam,
> 
> I've been trying to find information how to type arabic text 
> along with latin 
> (mixing bidirectional) in Linux environment, especially using KDE.
> 
> I have searched this mailing list and found that now I can 
> enable arabic GUI 
> and arabic html in Linux, using standardized i18n and unicode 
> fonts. But my 
> associates wants more using Arabic Windows as the sample. 
> What I don't know 
> are:
> 1. Using friendly word processor (maybe if there is ArabTex 
> in GUI) to type 
> bidirectional text. OpenOffice is available in bidirectional 
> feature, but is 
> this a standard feature, or just a tweaked version.
> 2. Creates arab-like character, with different charset (e.g. 
> Arabic Jawi text) 
> using my custom fonts.
> 3. Using existing non-unicode Arabic Windows fonts in Linux.
> 
> These needs are came up as my associates used lots of fully 
> harkat arabic 
> text. I have tried to create a windows-1256 html, but 
> displayed bizzarely in 
> Linux environment (Konqueror/Mozilla) as it didn't recognize 0 width 
> character.
> 
> And lastly, how can I use strict fatha/kasra/dhammah when 
> typing in MS Word 
> (on Arabic Windows)? I viewed the font (traditional arabic) 
> and sure that it 
> has the correct character, but couldn't find way to get it.
> -- 
> 
> 
> --jim.
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