Re: docbook css questions

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Hi,
Abdallah Deeb wrote:

> Maybe on a diffrent wave length here.
> I was looking for a way to write ps/pdf docs in Arabic for my project
> documetation, but all I found was ArabTex.
I suggest that you take a look at Omega:
http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/index.html
it comes with the teTeX package and it's much powerful than
ArabTex.

> assuming it works as promised (  I couldn't test it ...) it should
> write/typeset Arabic and output some neat LaTeX, and thus DVI files.
>
> the catch ? well, your document should be written in "LATIN" characters,
> something like transliteration, with a specific set of characters.
>
> Now it should be easy to do a one-on-one translation of the Arabic
> characters into the needed Latin charachter table.
>
> I don't know if that helps!
> on my side, I might start doing the translation table when I'm done here. If
> I don't find another solution that is ...
Hicham