On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:30:05PM -0800, Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote: > please ppl help me to do that > i need this things > 1) a template having tables(with a row span and col > span) ,images, ltr inside rtl in html i used > <span dir=ltr> or? <code dir=ltr> and I need to set > encoding to a value > and set document overall direction > 2) a windows utf8 text editor fit on 1 floppy > --- Salam, I apologize for the belated response. Better late than never. Converting your book to SGML is not without problems. There are some DocBook directional tags, but they seem to be place-holders and do nothing at all. At least, nothing when converted to HTML. There is one document that does make use of tables, which is the mdkarabicsupport.en.sgml document (doc/distros/). You may want to look into that. However, for a generic template using Arabic, you may want to have a look at the Arabic HOWTO (Arabic version): http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/doc/howto/arabic-howto/arabic-howto.ar.sgml Currently, converting documents to HTML formats involves running an additional script to set the correct directional tags. We do this for our documents on Arabeyes, and I would expect to be doing the same for yours. It would be a good idea to set some comments for our awk script to go through it and set the correct directional tags if we are to have tags per table/paragraph, etc. Also, converting SGML Docbook documents to PDF (when are in Arabic) are not possible. At the very least, I have been unable to successfully do so. It seems to be somethig requiring attaching the fonts to the PDF (resulting in a larger PDF, but at least a guranteed to work one). As far as your Windows/Linux problem, I am afraid I am unable to help you with it. I know "yudit" works under Windows and is a UTF-8 editor. I am not sure how well it would work for you. I always would recommend that you do all your work under Linux so we can help you when you have a technical issue. For instance, I only run Linux on my system and so am almost completely detached from the Windows world. P.S. I hope this helped further confuse you ;) [or help?] Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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