2008/1/9, Debbie Krongard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am considering downloading "open office". I have a MacBook with OSX > .4.11. > I am trying to be able to type Arabic. The Microsoft Office suite for Mac > that I have does not appear to support Arabic typing at all. In Text Edit > or in another word processing program called "Mellel" I can type in > Arabic, > but I still have a problem. The keyboard layout options that my OS has > (Arabic and Arabic-QWERTY) are NOT in the standard formats of most Arabic > keyboards or overlays available. So when I type the 'm' key, for example, > a > different Arabic letter is printed than the one shown on my keyboard. I > am > trying to find a word-processing program that allows for the same keyboard > format for typing in Arabic as the typical Arabic keyboards (I think it > may > be called Arabic-PC). > Does Open Office have this format? > > Thanks, > Debbie Krongard >
Hello Debbie, I can't really help you, only give you some references. There is an Arab language section of OpenOffice.org: http://ar.openoffice.org Mr. Ossama Khayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is cited as Project Lead ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The most recent version of the Arab localisation of OOo seems to be available here: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/SRC680_m241_localisation27/ (choose Intel or PPC, probably the Intel version for your MacBook) On Good-Day you can find other, maybe more stable, versions too. I hope this helps you a bit on the way... success! -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo 2.3 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
