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.

>> 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.

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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