Debbie Krongard wrote:
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?
OpenOffice.org mostly does not concern itself at all with the keyboard. It simply receives characters from the standard character interpretation routines of your operating system (and implements various functions if the CONTROL KEYS or ALT keys are pressed).
As to your problem with your physical keyboard, at least that's what I think you are referring to, you can obtain a free Macintosh compatable keyboard editor which allows you to edit your virtual keyboard as you wish, in your case, edit it to match your physical keyboard. See http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele . I’m not a Mac user so don’t know how good this is or what gotchas might be associated with it, but it is both free and widely used so it won’t hurt to give it a try.
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