Re: some general points

[Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com>]

This is doable in vim?  vim supports multiple fonts
and formatting (bold, underline), etc in a *wysiwyg*
manner?  Maybe katoob, but not vim.  However, I tried
OpenOffice on the Arabbix cd and most of the fonts
looked the same.  I didn't find anything that actually
produced professional looking text.  I could read
Arabic pages with Mozilla but they were ugly.  The
Arabbix cd needs to have some pretty fonts by default.

I already looked at the document.  The first step is
to  compile the kernel.  While I love hacking around
with my computer, I don't have time.  I installed XP
and simply enabled Internationalization.  Arabbix is
close, but it needs some work.  Perhaps the most
pressing things (from my perspective) are to get
Mozilla stable (since it was crashing like crazy) and
to configure Mozilla and Open Office to have some
reasonable fonts.

Salam,
Moustafa

--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Again, this is very doable.  You are not asking for
> anything
> out of the ordinary (you simply want to write Arabic
> and
> English and have it be displayed correctly).  You
> can do that
> in Katoob or in emacs-bidi or in vim within mlterm
> among other
> options.
> 
> Make sure to look into and read,
> 
>   http://www.arabeyes.org/docs.php
>  
>
http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/arabic-howto-en/
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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