abu_dana

I congratulate everyone to happy recovery of our Arabic forums, thanks to our true heros of the day and of the world: bernhard, The_FD and who else? Jonne? Alex?
But the latest is that she is not fully up yet....

I wanted you to also have a look at this link here...

http://www.soft32.com/download_126074.html

It says that it will cost you 38 bucks or euros?
Is there anything like that for free...
Has anyone seen or tried anything like that?

Asminha

Salaam yaa abu_dana,
It's just now that I saw your comment, I wasn't around for a long time. How did you know? Did you get the sound files we put in the forum?

As for your question baout caligraphy, I don't know about anything free.There are people who would write your name for you, and that doesn't cost much. But I don't know any unfortunately.

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abu_dana

Aleykum us-Salam, ya Asminha!

No I just made an assumption, it was my pure imagination..
That Arabic Calligrapher is really like AutoCAD system, no wonder they charge money for that...
When I was in Dubai I was looking for some CD software that would enable you write in nice style Arabic (similar to the Arabic Calligrapher I gave above).
May be I was looking in wrong places in the city...

Maa sallama!

abu_dana

Assalamu aleykum wa masa2 il-kheyir to everyone!

Jonne, or anyone, could you recommend me some software that would enable you to write Arabic with harakats in Word documents without changing the operational system of Windows the one that I have?

See, I found these
http://www.summitsoft.co.uk/

and

http://www.declan-software.com/arabic/index.htm

But, they are all pay stuff, I got money no problem, but problem is I am almost on desert site....the nearest bank machine is thousands km away...

Thank you,

Asminha

Salam abu_dana
I have been away from Berberber for quiet a long time! Now I think that I am back
I wish I could help you with that software thingy, but I didn't really understand what you were looking for.

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abu_dana

Salam, Asminha

I see what you mean...It's okey, I will have to work my way to get one...

Thank you anyways!

But, what I find very interesting is this article about technology friendly Arabetic script...

Since we all know that Arabic script doesn't want to part with its own cursive almost hand-written style...

http://arabetics.com/mutamathil_article_en.htm

Or you can read this one also very funny, you know, about simplification of Arabic script or typography...

http://omega.enstb.org/yannis/pdf/arabic-simpli98.pdf

I often keep hearing from IT professionals that what makes Arabic very complicated is two things: connection of letters and bi-directionality of letters versus digits.
This in fact makes it more complicated than even Chinese.

abu_dana

Assalamu aleykum,

Another site that discusses the problems of Arabic typography vs. calligraphy:

Arabic Type: a challenge for the 2nd millennium


and also on calligraphy:

http://yucefs.islamic.tripod.com/Artpage04.html