Please, if anyone interested in solving this issue (May be Isam?) or need more clarification, I will be happy to help as far as I can. The whole thread is in the lyx mailing lists. I am sorry I couldn't go further.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1 Date: Monday 30 June 2003 7:42 pm From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Munzir Taha Obeid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Concerning the patch, I think that it should solve the problem of >> using arabic at the end of document, but it does not solve the >> general problem of using formatting inside an arabic context. This >> problem is due to the big constraints that arabtex puts on the >> latex code that we may use. Munzir> I am really sad to hear this. To add a newline at the end of Munzir> the document is something which could be done by hand for Arab Munzir> users but what about the general problem which is really Munzir> annoying. Please, if no one can do it, I hope one, at least, Munzir> specify guidelines in how it could be solved and what files Munzir> need to be modified, or whether a patch needed for arabtex Munzir> itself. May be someone at arabeyes.org could do something Munzir> here. The problem is that this package implements something which is not really latex, but a subset of latex. For example, I may want to write te\TeX (name of a famous distribution). I arabic context, this is forbidden, and I shall write "te \TeX". This means that one should add code in a lot of places to add spacing before _all_ macros. This is not possible because: - that's a lot of work - in the non-arabic context, it will give bad output. I think that this macro package is code that works 'by chance', when you actually know what you do. It is very very difficult to use this in LyX (I am sure that even if this particular problem was solved, another one would crop up). I think that someone (maybe the people at arabeye.org) should take a look at this problem. I am willing to accept ``reasonable'' solutions. JMarc ------------------------------------------------------- -- __/ __/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\ _/ _/ \ / _\ unzir _/ aha Telecommunications Engineer Linux Registered User [EMAIL PROTECTED]://counter.li.org CIW, ICDL, MOUS. New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
