Re: General Digest, Vol 5, Issue 41

["N. Heer" <heer at u dot washington dot edu>]

Andrea,

	You do not have to use transliterated Arabic with ArabTeX.  Klaus
has provided scanners for Microsoft's 1256 and the ISO 8859-6 code pages.
And perhaps by now he's added UTF-8 as well.  So you can use any editor
that allows you to type in Arabic and then add the mark-up language in
English.  That way you won't make mistakes in transliteration which then
show up as mistakes in Arabic.

Nicholas Heer

On Mon, 31 May 2004, Andrea Benazzo wrote:

> 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
>
> > Message: 3
> > 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>
> > Message-ID: <200405292229 dot 18832 dot al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>
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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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