Re: General Digest, Vol 5, Issue 41

["Andrea Benazzo" <dolphin at slacky dot it>]

ehehhe 

the errors you found out in the pdf are genuine just like your thoughts: in 
ArabTeX you write in Arabic through the traslitterated form. that way is a 
very fast one to write in Arabic, n not to lose contact with our mother 
tongue characters. 

first of all I need to thank Klaus for inventing and mantaining ArabTeX 
because most of the pdf was made from that package. Second I must thank my 
Arabic teacher who was very happy of my work, but who never revised it. 
(that's why there are so many errors which I can't find out!!!!).
probably in the future I'll make up an english version of the course, so 
that someone else, just like you adbulhaq, may really help me with its 
development. 

I know this is not real Arabeyes duty, but perhaps it will enlarge its 
scopes in the future, n I'll be there. 


thank you again for the compliments and the noticed-errors too (they are 
more important though) 


take care 

Andrea 

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> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:29:17 +0100
> From: abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>
> Subject: Re: Word Processing- English to Arabic
> To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
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> Andrea 
>
> the pdf looks very good. 
>
> If you want help with the arabic I would be pleased to help although I don't 
> speak Italian. I noticed that often where the letter عين `ain should be, 
> there is a  همزة hamza. There are quite a lot of other spelling mistakes too. 
> It seems as if you wrote the arabic word based on transliteration rather than 
> learning from arabic script. I strongly advise you not to use transliteration 
> in your own learning if you aim to become strong in the language. For 
> instance, you have spelt the تنوين tanween using a noon rather the 
> appropriate signs. 
>
> wassalaam
> abdulhaq 
>
> On Saturday 29 May 2004 21:38, Andrea Benazzo wrote:
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> > I'm an Arabic newbie too, and I am building up an Arabic course too. Till
> > now I've been feeling great with ArabTeX, which is an extension to the
> > TeX-LaTeX tipographical markup language. 
> >
> > in particular with this package (thanx Klaus) everything is possible: you
> > may mix up English and Arabic words on the same line, as well as creating
> > different columns so that you have the english text on one side and the
> > Arabic original copy on the other. 
> >
> > if you want an example, go look my course from Italian to Arabic @
> > www.thephoenix.altervista.org/arabo/arabo.pdf 
> >
> >
> > of course LaTeX is totally different from Ms Word since in the former, you
> > write a simple text file with tags (like html pages), which will be
> > compiled by a program. later on it will create a wonderful .dvi or .ps or
> > .pdf file easily, without having to manual typeset the margins, the
> > headings, the font,... things which drive you crazy if you use Word. 
> >
> >
> > for every help, I'm here and ready to help you. 
> >
> > bye-bye 
> >
> > Andrea 
> >
> > - --
> > www.thephoenix.altervista.org 
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