arabic input methods again

[Alberto Corbi Bellot <alberto_corbi at terra dot es>]

hi Noah (and arabeyes people)... my name is alberto, a spanish arabic
student... i've recently come up with your gtk-im-extra page...

http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/

 i've tried to compile the code but found no "configure" script and so
on.

i also wonder if i'll be able to type arabic or define my own input
method for arabic. do you kown any input method for arabic? i've seen
xcin or kinput2 work for japanesse. i'd like to use something like that
for arabic.

for the time being i use yudit (www.yudit.org). yudit is an unicode
editor with beautiful input methods for many languages. you can also
easily define yours in a couple o minutes if you want. i've defined one
for me in order to type arabic with mnemotecnic key combinations (it is
indeed the standard used by ArabTeX and for plain arabic
transliteration).

for example:

"." + "h" gives "ح"

"_" + "h" gives "خ"

"'" + "a" gives "أ"

the problem is that i always have to use yudit to type this way and then
copy/paste to openoffice, abiword or gedit... it would be great to use
my own input method on any gnome app. do you know how?

any help appreciated.
-- 
Alberto Corbi Bellot <alberto_corbi at terra dot es>