Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word
Thomas, When you're in Word, just go Tools Options Complex Scripts Context Context means it will see that you're typing Persian and change the numbers accordingly to Persian. There's a bug with page numbers if you want to read about it: http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/numbers.htm Someone also recently mentioned the following method which I haven't tried so I can't say if it works. It may change all your numbers to Persian in a more permanent fashion. Maybe someone else here can comment: 1. Control panel 2. Regional and language options 3. `Select an item to match its Preferences' to Farsi 4. Click `Customize' 5. The last option: `Digit substitution' to `National' 6. Confirm all -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word
Thomas Speck schrieb: Hello all I am trying to enable a colleague (he is persian, but somewhat older and not that good with his computer) to write texts in farsi on his computer. I have installed the multilanguage version of Windows XP, the arabic MUI and put farsi into the Eingabegebietsschemaleiste (i am at a loss here for the english equivalent). When I start Word 2003, and change the language to farsi, i can type in farsi, but the numerals appear in western typeset. The same happens with OpenOffice 1.1 and Wordpad. Is there a way to remove that problem? As a sidequestion, i heard, that the multilanguageversion of Word 2003 is quite good, is that true regarding farsi? Ciao, Thomas Speck Thanks to all who replied to my question. C. Bobroffs hint regarding Tools Options Complex Scripts Context in Word did the trick, now it works. Ciao, Thomas Speck -- Thomas Speck Universitaet Hildesheim Zentrum fuer Fernstudium und Weiterbildung Marienburger Platz 22 Raum F 108 Tel.: +49(5121)883226 Fax : +49(5121)883222 E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Thomas Speck wrote: When I start Word 2003, and change the language to farsi, i can type in farsi, but the numerals appear in western typeset. That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. I think it's supposed to be a feature. Some people prefer Western-style numerals even if the text is in some other language. (Not saying this should be the default.) I think they forgot how to use their own numbers. As Peter pointed out, Persian speakers seem to be fast forgetting how to read Nasta`liq. -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word
Well, almost nobody can read even the text of their (the Calligrapher Association's) arm... ;) Likely a feature, not a bug. -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: No. That is simply a bug. People started to forget Persian numerals just after microsoft did this. To back my opinion just note that in the old Dos era everyone used Persian numerals. And the simple reason that MS did this bug *intentionally* is that their application does not parse Persian numeralas as numeric data, so if you type 12 with Persian digits in a font-size box in Office, it would give error. So if they were to put Persian digits on keyboard, people need to switch to English to write any number (see what happenes in Excel). And if they where to allow (let people know it's possible) to type Persian digits, people would request Persian digits in their Excel spreadsheets that was not possible. So they simply removed Persian digits from the keyboard, and as there was no Persian costumer, they predicted no one is gonna ask them... Behdad, So many excellent points you have raised here! And how true! -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
