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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">12 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Amina Inloes <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:a.inloes@islamic-college.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">a.inloes@islamic-college.ac.uk</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:transliteration input method</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Hi,
This website includes links to a macro for Word which provides keyboard shortcuts for the Arabic diacritic letters (d-dot, etc) and also a toolbar for inserting them easily <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/students/arabic_unicode_font/">http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/students/arabic_unicode_font/</a>. Maybe if it doesn’t have exactly the right ones you can use one and then find/replace at the end
Sincerely,
Amina Inloes
Programme Leader – MA Islamic Studies
The Islamic College / ICAS Press
133 High Road, Willesden
London, UK NW10 2SW
Tel.: +44 (0)20 8451 9993 ext. 204
<a href="http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk">http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk</a>
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">12 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Dan Parvaz <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:dparvaz@gmail.com">dparvaz@gmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:transliteration input method
</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Rasha,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Have you considered using Buckwalter notation? Each letter corresponds to a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">orthographic element in Arabic script, and it's easy to enter using a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">conventional keyboard, which makes it portable. Changing it to a more</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">conventional transcription system with diacritics is a simple matter of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">search and replace (replacing all instances of 'g' with 'ġ' or '|' with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">'ā', for instance).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Cheers,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">-Dan.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; "><br></span></span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">3)
Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">12 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Seham <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:s_tharwat@hotmail.com">s_tharwat@hotmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:transliteration input method
</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></p><p align=""></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Here is a link </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br><a href="http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm">http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Good luck<br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></div><div><pre id="nonprop"><p align="" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p align="" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">4)
Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">12 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></p><p align="" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Maxim Romanov <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:romanov@umich.edu">romanov@umich.edu</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></p><p align="" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Subject:transliteration input method
</span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Dear Rasha,
If you are using MS Word, you can use autocorrect function and assign any combination to the symbols you need. Try the attached Word template (made for PC, but the same system works fine with Mac too). In the attached template there are only symbols which are used for transliteration of Classical/Modern Standard Arabic. The autocorrect system is very simple:
- all symbols with dots and macrons are entered with " ,symbol, " combinations (comma, needed symbol, comma), for capital letters " ,symbolsymbol, " (comma, needed symbol twice, comma).
- combination for 'ayn is " ,`, "
- combination for hamza is ",/,"
You will also need a unicode font, which actually has these symbols; if you have MS Word 7, you can use Cambria (it seems to have all necessary ones), alternatively, you can download and install Gentium font (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium_download">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium_download</a>), which was designed specifically for linguists.
NB: Listserv does not accept attachments, so I can email if to you directly if you are interested. Others are welcome as well.
Best regards,
Maxim G. Romanov
PhD Candidate in Arabic & Islamic Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
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