I'm looking to produce beautifully formatted bilingual text. 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. Salam, Moustafa --- Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Moustafa Elqabbany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should also mention my basic needs in terms of > Arabic computing: I want to > > be able to view and compose well-formatted Arabic > text for the web and email. > > So far, I have not been able to do this with > Linux, and have therefore been > > using Windows XP. (If any kind person wants to > point me to a faq on how to > > do this, it would be much appreciated.) I am not > really interested in an > > Arabic UI, since English is easier and more > familiar for me. > > What about emacs-bidi and/or vim and/or mined and > mutt and mlterm, etc > doesn't suite you ? Can you be more specific ? > What did you have in mind ? > > > Now comes the criticism: > > I think you mean to replace 'criticism' with > 'feedback' :-) > > > I tried out Arabbix 0.8 and I'm not terribly > impressed. It failed on 2 of > > the three computers I tried it on. (I specialize > in cheap hardware. :)) One > > of the computers it failed on (with a kernel panic > one time and just hung the > > other time) runs XP perfectly and is a run of the > mill Pentium-based system > > with an IDE drive. The other is an old Acer > extensa 390 laptop running > > Redhat 6 smoothly. Arabbix just hung on it. > Arabbix did work on my C3 > > Gigapro. However, Mozilla was very flaky and the > fonts were just plain ugly. > > > > I can provide more details to anyone interested. > > Once Anmar is back from his vacation I'm sure he > would love to hear from > you with more detail and more suggestions. In terms > of hardware issues > (ie. your 2 machines failing), you ought to check > with the morphix.org > page for help. I would also highly suggest you mail > the morphix people > with details on the failures as the failures have > nothing to do with the > Arabic content and the extra applications bundled. > Do please follow-up > once you contact them. > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product > search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
