Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

[Munzir Taha Obeid <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

First, I want to apologize for the long delay. Actually, I had a car accident 
but praise be to God I am OK.

Second, as you guessed, if I changed the .tex file to look like this,

\begin{document}
hi

\begin{arabtext}
\begin{center}أهلا%
\end{center}
\end{arabtext}
\end{document}

I still get some garbage at the end of the file. So this is not useful as 
you guessed yourself. However, I still wonder how come you can add a % and a 
newline without breaking out something whereas adding a newline alone will 
break out too much!!!

----YOU TOLD ME BEFORE:
It (newline) is _really_ hard to get right and it will most certainly mess up 
in other situation.
Such a thing (the %) could be added without breaking too much
----

I want to suggest something else. Why not we add a 
space after each Arabic paragraph. I mean there should be a 
way to check for the language written. If it's Arabic, we just add a space 
after each paragraph. Something like the previous patch but for each 
paragraph. What do you think?



On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:48 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:12:53AM +0300, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote:
> > > really simple way out...
> >
> > It works!
> > I am not sure why a percent sign not a space but it _almost_ work.
> > If I understand you properly, I made a small file in lyx and exported it
> > to TeX. I edited the file by adding the percent before the "\end{center}"
>
> No. I meant at the end of the line before the \end{center}.
>
> % is the usual TeX command character which basically ignores everything on
> the rest of the line and the leading whitespace on the next one.
>
> So your edited .tex should look like
>
>   some text%
>   \end{center}
>
> Andre'

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