> On 24 Jul 2016, at 19:03, Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Abdassamad Clarke wrote:
>>> On 22 Jul 2016, at 04:36, spaelti <[log in to unmask]
>>>> On Jul 22, 2016, at 2:19 , Abdassamad Clarke
>>>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> … and this takes place line by line,…
>>>
>>> And the lines are terminated by carriage returns? Or do line breaks
>>> happen automatically?
>>
>> There are no carriage returns, which really puzzles me.
>
> This means that - if you want to select something - a double-click will only select '1' word at a time and a triple-click will select the whole paragraph.
Perhaps because of the Arabic vowels, double clicking won’t select an entire word but a large number of words.
>
>>> Either way, it is not difficult to write a macro to reverse the order
>>> of words on a line, but one really wonders how such a file came about.
>>
>> Indeed, it is a real puzzle to me.
>>
>> How easy is it for a complete novice such as myself to write a small
>> macro for that?
>
> Don't know much about writing macros - and I hardly use them too...
>
> But the way the document is shown on Mac makes me think that the original PC/Win document isn't written on a native Arabic Windows system, but with another win system just with the Microsoft Arabic Language Kit (ALK) installed as an add-on to the original Windows system.
That is something like what I thought. A friend is trying it out on his Windows machine.
>
> In this case the document will show up correctly when viewed on a PC/Win machine but will be shown 'reverted' on either a Mac or Linux based system.
>
> Cheeers, Erik Richard
>
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> On 24 Jul 2016, at 19:03, Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Abdassamad Clarke wrote:
>>> On 22 Jul 2016, at 04:36, spaelti <[log in to unmask]
>>>> On Jul 22, 2016, at 2:19 , Abdassamad Clarke
>>>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> … and this takes place line by line,…
>>>
>>> And the lines are terminated by carriage returns? Or do line breaks
>>> happen automatically?
>>
>> There are no carriage returns, which really puzzles me.
>
> This means that - if you want to select something - a double-click will only select '1' word at a time and a triple-click will select the whole paragraph.
Perhaps because of the Arabic vowels, double clicking won’t select an entire word but a large number of words.
>
>>> Either way, it is not difficult to write a macro to reverse the order
>>> of words on a line, but one really wonders how such a file came about.
>>
>> Indeed, it is a real puzzle to me.
>>
>> How easy is it for a complete novice such as myself to write a small
>> macro for that?
>
> Don't know much about writing macros - and I hardly use them too...
>
> But the way the document is shown on Mac makes me think that the original PC/Win document isn't written on a native Arabic Windows system, but with another win system just with the Microsoft Arabic Language Kit (ALK) installed as an add-on to the original Windows system.
That is something like what I thought. A friend is trying it out on his Windows machine.
>
> In this case the document will show up correctly when viewed on a PC/Win machine but will be shown 'reverted' on either a Mac or Linux based system.
>
> Cheeers, Erik Richard
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]>
> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
> Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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