Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

It is actually not a windows app. If you visit the site (the pakistani
site, not arabeyes quran project) you can see that there is no
application distributed there. To proofread, what you have to do is
get the XML file, font file, and one file named htm.zip, namely a perl
script for cenverting the xml fiel to html file. To read it, you have
several options:

1. You can open the XML file directly using a text editor. Gedit for
gnome and notepad for windows would be find (have not tried kde text
editor, maybe someone can let me know the result). Wordpad can't
handle utf-8 properly. If you want to use Wordpad for some reason,
open it using notepad first, then save as unicode text file, This will
conver to a format which wordpad understand (i think it is utf-16).
The disadvantage of this is you will end up opening a ~1.7Meg of text
file.

2. Use the perl script supplied (read the readme file), and create the
HTML file for sura that you want to proof read. Open it up using IE or
Firefox (not tested with Konqueror, someone please let me know the
result). IMake sure the CSS file is within the same directory of the
html file. Under firefox, if you see the character displayed all over
the page, then please edit the CSS file and remove the line with the
word 'justify'. Firefox simple can't justify arabic script properly
yet (IE does it OK, but does have some minor problem with
justification, expecially when printing).

Now you can start proofread the quran. If you don't want to read using
browser, and at the same time don't want to open up a large text file,
you can modify the perl script to output a text file instead of html
file . It should be trivial for a perl programmer to understand the
code. If you don't have perl and still want to contribute, let me
know. I can sent you the file privately.

Hope that will clarify the matter. Just a note, this text file was
created by me, not taken from the net . So, if you've been looking
around the net looking for complete unicode quran and have not found
it, this might be the one for you.

Personally, I really would like the proofread be done ASAP , and
encourage to other sites that are offering quran on the net to use
this file instead of their current text. The only drawback is that
user will have to use the font supplied.

Regards.


On 6/23/05, Arafat Medini <arafato at gmail dot com> wrote:
> How can I help? I want to help when I have free time but it looks like
> a windows app, does it have any source code? What do I have to control
> etc... pls tell me!
> 
> Arafat
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