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1) Subject: Reading and Printing JAIS articles
2) Subject: New JAIS articles
3) Subject: JAIS article

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Date: 09 Apr 2001
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: Reading and Printing JAIS articles

>Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
>http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
>http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm
>
>Reading JAIS PDF files: If the files cause you computer to hang when
>reading online, download the file to your computer (on the PC
>right-clicking on the title in the Table of Contents followed by
>"Save Target as . . ." will do this). Then read the file using
>Acrobat Reader without the "help" of your browser.
>
>Printing JAIS PDF files. We think printing from the ME version of
>Acrobat Reader gives better results with Arabic text, at least with
>ink-jet printers.
>
>Reading JAIS HTML files: Recently we have tested our files with
>Netscape Communicator 4.75 and Internet Explorer 5.0.2920.0 on
>Windows 98 Arabic Enabled and Windows 2000. Netscape seems to handle
>the JAIS1 TTW font with no problems, while Internet Explorer has
>some difficulties with diacritics, which tend to appear in front of
>the letter they modify. By using the toolbar option of viewing the
>file in MS Word, these problems are eliminated, although Word cannot
>handle all our diacritics when used as an Web composer. We have no
>satisfactory solution for viewing HTML Arabic and JAIS1 together for
>Mac users, although by switching encoding back and forth one can
>probably view an entire file with iCab. "The development of iCab is
>not finished at the moment, some features of the final version are
>missing. But you can try the iCab Preview at the download page. In
>the next few months better versions of iCab will be offered on our
>site. After the first final release, we will offer 'iCab Pro' for
>$29. You will also be able to download a version for free" (iCab
>Homepage, http://www.icab.de, Jan. 7, 2001). See also Knut Vikørs
>comment on Mac Web browsers and Arabic at
>http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabnet.html#w. We have not been able
>to make Netscape and Sindbad in combination open Petra Schmidl's
>article properly. We would be grateful for any help here, because
>Netscape handles the JAIS font so much better than Internet Explorer.
>
>Joseph N. Bell
>Professor of Arabic
>Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
>University of Bergen
>Sydnesplassen 12
>N-5007 Bergen
>
>tel.	+47 5558 2860 (reception)
>	+47 5558 4771 (direct)
>fax	+47 5558 2860

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2)
Date: 09 Apr 2001
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: New JAIS articles

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm


We call attention to the following two articles that have just been
posted at the Journal's Norwegian Web site in Volume 3 (2000). These
are pre-publication versions. HTML versions will be posted with the
final versions. We ask our readers to report any printing or other
errors they may notice to joseph.bell at msk.uib.no.


Lutz Edzard. SIBAWAYHI'S OBSERVATIONS ON ASSIMILATORY PROCESSES AND
RE-SYLLABIFICATION IN THE LIGHT OF OPTIMALITY THEORY. (Adobe Acrobat
4.0 PDF file, 136 kB, pp. 48-65).


Ibrahim Taha. THE POWER OF THE TITLE: WHY HAVE YOU LEFT THE HORSE
ALONE BY MAHMUD DARWISH. (Adobe Acrobat 4.0 PDF file, 103 kB, pp.
66-83).

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3)
Date: 09 Apr 2001
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS article

>Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
>http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
>http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm
>
>The final PDF version of Petra G. Schmidl's article Two Early Arabic
>Sources on the Magnetic Compass (Adobe Acrobat 4.0 PDF file, 342 kB;
>vol. 1 [1996-97], pp. 81-132) along with an HTML version have been
>posted at the Journal's Norwegian Web site. This file contains some
>pages of Arabic text.

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