From: ayoub al othmany Subject: Re: Bayani status Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:32:46 -0800 (PST)
Salam,
--- Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> > Yes, that's a priority. Actually, for example no one > except me know how to > use the command script unless they read the code. > And since this is not > expected from an end user, we have to document and > make a nice help :)
Once you estimate that the version is OK for releseasing, I can help in writing tutorials.
> > Actually, you are the 3rd person suugesting this > (not take shadda etc into > account). So i think this is the tendency. I'll take > this into account and i > think that it wouldn't be difficult to change it if > we find out later that > it is not appropriate.
I remember in one email you told that is difficult to think to all the possible forms of a word if we take into account of the harakats. To whom are you thinking : to the developper , to the end user or both ?
for the user I imagine one solution: let him write words without harakats and if he types TAB button, he gets all the corresponding words (a kind of tab-completion like in shells). I do not know if this solution is realistic.
> > Again, does anybody know about attempts/existing > arabic symbolic > computation/programming languages ? If no, we'll add > "FIRST SYMBOLIC > COMPUTATION SYSTEM IN ARABIC" to Bayani's publicity > :)
I do not know any and I am sure there is none: it suffices to see how difficult it is to have arabic support on linux :)).
> > I am also a regular LaTeX/Postscript user. To be > frank, I first thought of > bayani when i was thinking about writing scientific > articles in arabic, so > came the idea to have figures in arabic too. When > bayani was a small Xlib > app I wrote a function to save to EPS. Since bayani > has eveolved, this > function was not updated. QT permits to save into > BMP/JPEG/PNG etc so I plan > to add all those formats to bayani. So the user can > save in his/her prefered > format directly from bayani and not having to > convert it later. I plan to > add EPS/PS saving. If you are interested and you > have some postscript > language knowledge you can work on it if you like > (it's totally your choice, > i'm not forcing you :)). If you don't have any > postscript language knowledge > you can learn the necessry very quickly (less than > one hour :)) since the > only used concepts are points/lines/shapes and text > drawing with postscript. > I can give you the old xlib code and some > references. Again, it is > completely your choice :) >
My knowledge of postscript programming is quite basic. In some (not rare) occasions, i had to "hack" ps files to suits my needs.
I have a 770-page book on postscript always on my desk but never got time to read it!! There is also the possibility to integrate directly into Bayani well-known tools like png2ps,etc.. Maybe there is a source code somewhere.
Are you sure that it is easy to write arabic text in postscript ? If you have very readable references, please send them to me. I could not guarantee you that this job will be done so quickly but I can keep myself busy with this.
Ayoub.
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