--- Forwarded Message from "Ross, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: RE: #7998 Fonts for Arabic Transliteration
>Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:28:44 -0400
>Thread-Topic: #7998 Fonts for Arabic Transliteration
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>From: "Ross, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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Hi, Sharon:
By transliterated Arabic, do you mean Arabic words written in Roman
characters with long vowel marks and stops? Or is this transliterated
input, with output in Arabic?
If the former, it might be sufficient to use something like the Windows
Maori keyboard, which remaps the tilde key to produce a macron when
combined with a vowel, though there are other transliteration schemes,
such as Buckwalter. I suppose that the stops could be indicated by an
apostrophe, but there's probably a more sophisticated solution out
there.
The Maori keyboard is downloadable here:
http://www.microsoft.com/nz/hardware/keyboard/maori/default.mspx
An interesting discussion of Arabic transliteration schemes is available
here:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis639/arabic/info/romanization.html
The Library of Congress' Romanization tables (including Arabic) can be
found here (though I can't for the life of me get the PDF to display
correctly):
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
Do check, though, to see whether the English (New Zealand) keyboard is
already installed on your faculty member's computer. If so, Maori
should be an option in the Language settings.
Hope this helps,
a.
Andrew F. Ross, Ph.D
Director, Language Resource Center
Brown University
Box 1935
Providence, RI 02912-1935
Tel: (401) 863-7010
Mobile: (401) 641-0329
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>Subject: Fonts for Arabic Transliteration
>From: Sharon Scinicariello <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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The Help Desk called the Lab for help!
A prof needs to type in transliterated Arabic. (Unfortunately, he
apparently didn't explain his specific needs any better than that.)
I've
found a lot of solutions, but I thought I'd ask here for suggestions
based
on experience. The platform is Windows XP with Office 2003.
Thanks,
Sharon
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Sharon Scinicariello, Ph.D.
Director, Multimedia Language Laboratory
Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures
University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
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