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Re: again with lyx/latex



On Yaum al-Ithnain 22 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 7:04 pm, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> Alberto Corbi Bellot wrote:
> > When is gonna Lyx work with a "standard" Arabic Keyboard layout?
> >
> > I can't get used to its own layout... I'd rather use the same layout I
> > use within gnome or Openoffice....
>
> I'm sorry guys I might be a bit out of information here as I'm a totally
> n00b in LyX and TeX in general.
> First of all, I can't see that LyX supports UTF-8

Not yet and I doubt it would be supported before 1.5.

> I have read on different web sites including the Arabic LyX HowTo on the
> documentation page about ArabTex, now is it required to have it in order
> for me to write documents/books or whatsoever in Arabic?

Yes.

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