Re: What are the needed Arabized applications?

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

	I would certainly want to see Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX in an
Arabic-friendly distribution.  I've been using it for years with teTeX.
You can do things in TeX and ArabTeX that you can't do in any other word
processor.  ArabTeX, for example, is the only program I know that can
format Arabic poetry correctly.

Nicholas Heer

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Muhammad Alkarouri <karouri at uofk dot edu> wrote:
> > For the distro project we would like to know which packages would you
> > like to see in an Arabic-friendly distro; so we can include them in the
> > application lists.
>
> Excellent !!
>
> > Please include the following information about any suggested package:
> > - Category (editor/browser/officeware/etc)
> > - Name (katoob/mozilla/etc)
> > - Degree of importance (one of: critical/important/good/nice)
> > - Status with respect to Arabic
> > - preferably, the version
>
> The rating I'm using,
>   5 - Must have
>   4 - Critical (very much in need of this)
>   3 - Important to have (need this)
>   2 - Nice to include
>   1 - Of Interest
>
> Name		: mlterm
> Version		: 2.7.0+
> Category	: terminal emulator
> Importance	: A Must (5/5)
> Status		: Shaping and Bidi support; some minor bugs remain
>
> Name		: Fribidi
> Version		: 0.10.4+
> Category	: bidi library
> Importance	: A Must (5/5); requirement for lots of other apps
> Status		: Shaping missing
>
> Name		: Duali
> Version		: 0.1.1 (Elzubeir ?)
> Category	: Spell Checker
> Importance	: A Must (5/5)
> Status		: Functional yet user-interface is not polished
>
> Name		: Vim
> Version		: 6.2+
> Category	: Editor
> Importance	: A Must (5/5)
> Status		: Arabic fully functional (includes Arabeyes' patches)
>
> Name		: Katoob
> Version		: 0.3.5
> Category	: Editor
> Importance	: Critical (4/5)
> Status		: Fully functional
>
> Name		: KCAST fonts
> Version		: 1.4
> Category	: fonts
> Importance	: Critical (4/5)
> Status		: Fully functional
>
> Name		: Khotot fonts
> Version		: 1.0
> Category	: fonts
> Importance	: Critical (4/5); adds variety
> Status		: Fully functional
>
> Name		: fvwm
> Version		: 2.5.7+
> Category	: Window Manager
> Importance	: important (3/5); for those not using KDE/Gnome
> Status		: Arabic Fully functional
>
> This is what I could this think of at the moment (I'm very sure
> this is _not_ an exhaustive list - there are more apps that need
> to be included, I'm positive).  I'll try to mail (or accumulate
> this info) for later publication as well.
>
> I would like to see a reply from everyone to get an exhaustive list
> of what we'd like to see in distros (this is a VERY serious matter
> that none should take lightly, so reply NOW).  There are plenty of
> you out there that complained about Arabic support in various distros,
> well this is your chance to make a difference - note here what it
> is that you'd like to see in these distros (Arabic related software
> only, please).
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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