Xref: utzoo misc.wanted:1519 comp.sys.ibm.pc:9594 comp.sys.mac:9979 sci.lang:1688 comp.text:1364
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!wjh12!dow
From: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,sci.lang,comp.text
Subject: Re: Arabic Wordprocessing / Publishing Software wanted
Message-ID: <120@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 87 19:48:11 GMT
References: <1908@ho95e.ATT.COM> <465@rocksanne.UUCP>
Reply-To: dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk)
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
Lines: 16

In article <465@rocksanne.UUCP> lee@rocksanne.UUCP (Lee Moore) writes:
>In article <1908@ho95e.ATT.COM>, wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) writes:
>> A friend of mine is looking for a computer system that will let him do
>> word-processing in Arabic and English, as well as miscellaneous ...

IBM do an Arabic version of their main word processor DisplayWrite.  I am
not a great fan of DW, and the only version I have seen in Arabic is
version 2 of DisplayWrite, which is only just good enough to use.  But the
Arabic implementation is excellent.  Printout is on a QuietWriter with a
plug-in Arabic font cartridge.  You can mix Arabic and English any way you
like, and text entry is bi-directional, with several neat options.  You can
select to have all system menus etc. in Arabic or English too.  I have
mentioned this to some colleagues in Germany, and their branch of IBM
didn't even know about this product.  I HAVE USED IT: IT EXISTS.  If IBM
denies it, press them.  (Good luck!)
Dominik Wujastyk