Arabic-L:GEN:Mixing Scripts on QuarkXPress Query

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Date: 20 Nov 2000
From: Aaron Jensen <ajj3 at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Mixing Scripts on QuarkXPress Query

I have been using QuarkXPress Passport v4.04. I purchased the ArabicXT
extention, which allows QuarkXPress Passport to work with Arabic, Latin,
and Cyrillic alphabets all in the same text boxes. The Arabic fonts which
will work with ArabicXT, however, are special fonts made just for use with
QuarkXPress, meaning they cannot be used in other applications, nor can
QuarkXPress use any other Arabic fonts.

My problem is that I need also to use Hebrew fonts in the same text boxes
as the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic. As you well know, Arabic and Hebrew
alphabets are written from right to left, as opposed to the left-to-right
Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.

Aramedia, the company which designed ArabicXT, has a HebrewXT with special
Hebrew fonts that work about the same way as the ArabicXT fonts work.
Without using HebrewXT, I have tried installing standard Hebrew fonts
(using the Hebrew Language kit) onto my computer to use with the ArabicXT
extention, but they type from left to right, and render themselves mixed up
with a lot of non-Hebrew characters.

The company, Aramedia, says that if I purchase their HebrewXT software for
$700, I will be able to use Hebrew and Arabic, but not at the same time.
This is no help to me. I can't afford to spend so much money on something
that won't give me the features I need.

I do have Nissus Writer, and it looks fine in Nissus Writer. But I need to
do this project in QuarkXPress, because I will be publishing, and Nissus
Writer does not print the look I need.

Does anybody have any recommendations? Has anybody tried this and gotten it
to work or fail? What did you do to make it so? What other
publishing-quality programs (besides word processing programs) can place
Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin all in the same paragraphs?

If anybody has an answer, please send it soon. Time is against me.

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