Re: letters as numbers in OOo 1.9.x

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

Hello Bulbul,

Yes you are right in such usage the correct order should be the abjad huwwaz order, which was the original order of letters in the Arabic alphabet anyways. Later the order was changed to the current order. The full mnemonic sequence for the ancient order of Arabic letters is:

abjad hawwaz HuTTi kalaman sa'faS qarashat thakhadh DaZagh

Actually the first 22 letters of this order correspond one to one with Hebrew and Aramaic scripts as well (Arabic has six more letters than Hebrew and Aramaic in addition to the 22 common letters that are related to each other).

-Mete

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Leston Buell <bulbul at fizzylogic dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date:  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:31:29 -0700

>There is a way in OpenOffice.org 1.9.x to insert the page number field 
>as Arabic letters rather than as numbers. This is great, but it doesn't 
>behave the way i expected it to. To my knowledge, when you use Arabic 
>numbers in the same way that in English we use Roman numerals (such as 
>to number items in a list), you don't use the regular alphabetic order:
>    alif baa' taa' thaa' jiim...
>Rather, you use the "abgad hawwaz" order:
>    alif baa' jiim daal haa'...
>(Those of you who know the song can sing along with me: "...shakl 
>il-'ustaaz ba'a munsagimun... :-) )
>
>Anyway, this numbering feature in OOo uses the regular alphabetic order 
>rather than the abgad hawwaz order. I am planning on filing a bug on 
>this behavior, but i wanted to air the idea hear first, just in case 
>this is correct usage for some purpose or in some country.
>
>Bulbul
>
>

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