Unicode Arabic BDF font
updated
Version 1.4 of the 24pt, proportional
bitmap font for the X Window system is
now available. This version moves the Urdu digit 7 to the Private Use Area,
and for Unicode 3.0, adds three new letters, a couple of Sindhi marks, and the
non-spacing maddah and hamzah above and below.
This font currently includes 635
glyphs that are needed for rendering
all of the Arabic letters in Unicode 3.0 with minimal legibility. Any
improvements or additions welcomed.
For those of you looking for rendering
info, the distribution does include a
file with information relating the glyphs to characters encoded in Unicode.
Ftp
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/arabic24-1.4.tar.gz
Islamic Timer
Contains Hijra Calendar,Date,Conversion and
Prayertime.
Here
New Version of Acon ( Acon
1.0 )
I've just finished version 1 of Acon. It has
the following changes:
-CTRLs work
-more command line options
-menu based on line configuration.
-support user fonts.
-support more codesets. I've included ISO-8895-6 and CP-1256. Others can be added simply
using configuration files.
-support UTF-8 (I'm not sure about it)
-restoe old font when exit or another console is active.
-each console monitored by Acon can have its own font and codeset
(translation data and keymap).
Please tell me about any thing you don't like
with Acon.
Acon by Ahmed
Arabic Keyboard Map for KDE
I found that the
International Keyboard Layout program that comes with
KDE lack the support for the Arabic keyboard layout, so I made an
Arabic keyboard map that work with the Kikbd program. This layout will
be available in the next release of KDE.
The KDE keyboard map is available at
http://alsaid.jumpcomputers.com/
***To install the
Arabic Keyboard map on KDE:
1) Copy the file named
"ar.kimap" to the directory
/usr/share/apps/kikbd
2) Start kikbd and click add to add the Arabic keyboard map
3) To test the keyboard map -- You may used KEdit or any other apps.
and choose an ISO8859-6 font (i.e. naskhi)
Thanx to Adil Alsaid for this Link
New Arabic Email client
This is a patch I made to the spruce
program which adds support for BiDi
languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
The following is the information needed to implement this patch.I hope
somebody will find it useful.
What is spruce?
-spruce is an email client based on GTK+ made by
Jeffrey Stedfast <mailto:xtort@xtorshun.org?subject=Re:
New Arabic Email client>
Why do we need
this patch?
-To be able to send and receive email in Arabic,or Hebrew.
the patch makes the spruce program supports the Right to Left languages
like Arabic and Hebrew.
How did you do
that?
-Replaced the gtktext widget in spruce by
the gtk reflected widgets which developed by Dov Grobgeld
What else did
you change?
-Add new Options menu in the composer and the message reader
windows to allow the user to choose the font.
Where do I find
spruce?
http://www.xtorshun.org/spruce/main.html
http://www.xtorshun.org/spruce/spruce-0.4.9c.tar.gz
Where do I find
the patch file?
http://publish.uwo.ca/~ualadl/rspruce/rspruce.html
What are the
System Requirements ?
- you need gtk+>=1.2.
How do I compile
the package?
After you down load
-spruce-0.4.9c.tar.gz
-R2L-spruce-patch.tar.gz
- First untar the package in any directory you choose:
>tar zxvf spruce-0.4.9c.tar.gz
-this will create a directory spruce-0.4.9c.
>cd spruce-0.4.9c
-untar the patch package in the current directory.
>tar zxvf
R2L-spruce-patch.tar.gz
>patch < R2L-spruce-patch
-Now you can build the program
>./configure
>make
How do I run the
program?
>./sprcue
How can I change
the font?
-In the composer or the message reader click on the Options menu and
choose font.
by Aladl, Usaf
Arabic Rendering engine
The following is a snapshot of a
Simple Arabic rendering engine. It was made with the Xlib libraries just to demonestrate
that even without any toolkit (i.e. QT (or KDE), GTK+, etc.), somone can design a simple
yet professional rendering engine.
This program is not complete or ready
to be used as a complete library for Arabic support. It is meant to be a demonestration
program for how an Arabic rendering engine may work. This program lack lots of features to
be a complete Arabic solutions for the Linux environement. However, I made it available to
the public to share and exchange the knowoldge.
http://alsaid.jumpcomputers.com
The first public release
(v0.2) of GRE is now available
The first public release (v0.2) of GRE is now
available for download at: http://publish.uwo.ca/~ualadl/grehtml/gre.html
GRE is a simple text editor that supports
Bi-Di languages like Arabic and Hebrew, based on GTK+, and a patch to gtktext widget made
by Dov Grobgeld."
basic demo of
XLANGBOX-ARA for Linux is available now
The demo is composed of a motif sample
application, a text editor and aa2ps to print arabic iso8859-6 text in postscript
http://www.langbox.com/arabic/xarademo.html
The default XLANGBOX-ARA keyboard mapping
is at http://www.langbox.com/images/arakbd1.gif
Arabic in Linux console
Acon: Arabic in Linux
console ,operates with the
virtual consols in the background. The arabic characters are writen in the direction from
right to left, and their shape changes with the position in the word
Acon by Ahmed
mc
I found that mc doesn't accept the
arabic keys, so I made small changes on it to force it to accept these keys. But you
should also select from 'Options/Display bits' menu the 'Full 8 bits' option also to make
the arabic letters displayed.
The source code : mc-4.0.tar.gz (1613
kb)
byAhmed
ArabTeX Version 3.09 is available
The new version 3.09 of ArabTeX is
available by FTP from "ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de" (129.69.211.2). The
package resides in "/pub/arabtex/", see the file "arabtex.htm".
This server always carries the current
version; in case of doubt check the version number and the date of the file
/pub/arabtex/apatch.sty. To receive a status report you may also send an empty Email
message to "arabtex@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de".
Please observe that we are *not* the
same as the (old) "Stuttgart server"!
The identical package is also
available from the CTAN server network:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/languages/arabtex/ (UK)
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/languages/arabtex/
(Germany)
ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/languages/arabtex/
(USA)
ArabTeX is a TeX macro package with
associated Naskh fonts designed to generate the Arabic writing from texts coded in an
ASCII transliteration as well as in some other popular encodings for Arabic and Hebrew,
e.g. ASMO 449, ISO 8859-6 (ASMO 708), Arabic Windows encoding, and HED. It is compatible
with Plain TeX, LaTeX, NFSS, and the EDMAC package. It also cooperates well with LaTeX 2e
of June 1996 or later. There is some support for Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and Sindhi.
Unicode support is in preparation.
The version 3.09 supports vowelized
and non-vowelized Hebrew, and bidirectional line-breaking within insertions. The former
limitation that an insertion must fit on the current line no more exists.
Some new features are described in the
file "README.305". An extensive User Manual (somewhat out of date) is part of
the package as "arabdoc.ps"; for information on updates, see the file
"changes.txt".
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