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