Arabic fonts in Offive v.X:mac

[Michael Timpe]

Is anyone able to tell me if it's poosible to write from RIGHT to LEFT with arabic fonts in Word v.X perhaps with an additional extension or expansion kit?


M. Timpe

(It's ugly with all these TrueTypes, Font1, opentype)

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi ‹

Go to Google, click on Groups, use Advanced search to search the NG archives
for this group and for microsoft.public.mac.office.word, and you will get
lots of info re workarounds. Suggest Arabic, Hebrew and "right to left" as
separate search terms.

Latest rendition mentioned a program called Mellel--hopefully people will
share new info they haven't posted before.

DM

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Go to Google, click on Groups, use Advanced search to search the NG archives
for this group and for microsoft.public.mac.office.word, and you will get
lots of info re workarounds. Suggest Arabic, Hebrew and "right to left" as
separate search terms.

Let me summarize: Office X cannot do this.

Latest rendition mentioned a program called Mellel--hopefully people will
share new info they haven't posted before.

Many other applications can do it. The one you mention is not the only
one, there are plenty others out there.


Corentin

 

[Gene van Troyer]

Is anyone able to tell me if it's poosible to write from RIGHT to LEFT with
arabic fonts in Word v.X perhaps with an additional extension or expansion
kit?

Word X can't do it. Period. There's no workaround for right to left text
input.

An app called Mellel can do it. I believe NisusWriter Express can do it.
Create can do it if you use a utility like Direction Services (a little
Cocoa services app that will work with any Cocoa application).

Mellel

http://www.redlers.com

Nisus

http://www.ninsus.com

DirectionService

http://mac.plonter.co.il/plonwiki/DirectionService

Hope this helps.

Gene van Troyer

 

[Mickey Stevens]

This URL doesn't seem to work. Try:
<http://www.nisus.com/>