Re: some general points

[Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com>]

I'm looking to produce beautifully formatted bilingual
text.

To give you an example, I typed up the following in XP
Home:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shafii/message/332

This uses UTF-8 (Unicode).
(Note: I am not using this group to promote particular
religious ideas.  I am merely providing an example of
what I want to be able to produce using Arabic Linux.)

I want to be able to read and email out documents that
look like the above.

Salam,
Moustafa


--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > I should also mention my basic needs in terms of
> Arabic computing: I want to
> > be able to view and compose well-formatted Arabic
> text for the web and email.
> > So far, I have not been able to do this with
> Linux, and have therefore been
> > using Windows XP.  (If any kind person wants to
> point me to a faq on how to
> > do this, it would be much appreciated.)  I am not
> really interested in an
> > Arabic UI, since English is easier and more
> familiar for me.  
> 
> What about emacs-bidi and/or vim and/or mined and
> mutt and mlterm, etc
> doesn't suite you ?  Can you be more specific ? 
> What did you have in mind ?
> 
> > Now comes the criticism:
> 
> I think you mean to replace 'criticism' with
> 'feedback' :-)
> 
> > I tried out Arabbix 0.8 and I'm not terribly
> impressed.  It failed on 2 of
> > the three computers I tried it on.  (I specialize
> in cheap hardware. :))  One
> > of the computers it failed on (with a kernel panic
> one time and just hung the
> > other time) runs XP perfectly and is a run of the
> mill Pentium-based system
> > with an IDE drive.  The other is an old Acer
> extensa 390 laptop running
> > Redhat 6 smoothly.  Arabbix just hung on it. 
> Arabbix did work on my C3
> > Gigapro.  However, Mozilla was very flaky and the
> fonts were just plain ugly.
> >  
> > I can provide more details to anyone interested.
> 
> Once Anmar is back from his vacation I'm sure he
> would love to hear from
> you with more detail and more suggestions.  In terms
> of hardware issues
> (ie. your 2 machines failing), you ought to check
> with the morphix.org
> page for help.  I would also highly suggest you mail
> the morphix people
> with details on the failures as the failures have
> nothing to do with the
> Arabic content and the extra applications bundled. 
> Do please follow-up
> once you contact them.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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