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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: arabic wordprocessor and fonts
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.151232.20806@sics.se>
Date: 17 Oct 90 15:12:32 GMT
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In <26801@cs.yale.edu> ciancarini-paolo@cs.yale.edu (paolo ciancarini) writes:


>I need information on any application
>that allow to write arabic text on a Macintosh.
>I need a wp writing from right to left
>and arabic fonts.

Try MacWrite!

  The only thing you have to do is to get an arabic system software (should
be on some developer CD). With this system you could mix arabic and roman
letters. When you write english (roman letters) you write from left to right,
and when you write arabic the system automatic change the order: from right
to the left. This is hard to explain, you have to try it!

  This works with all wps that follows the Apple guidelines for textediting,
the old MacWrite does this (to some extent).


    /Olle