Arabic-L:GEN:hamzatu l-wasl in Microsoft Word

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Date: 13 Aug 2003
From: Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:hamzatu l-wasl in Microsoft Word

You can use Microsoft Word XP Arabic edition to display hamzatu l-wasl   
on a bearer alif.  (This capability doesn't seem to have existed in  
earlier versions, and it is irritating that even XP doesn't have a form  
without alif for display purposes.)
 
To get it, go to Insert, then Symbol.  Choose one of the Arabic fonts  
from the menu on the left, then "Arabic extended" from the menu on the  
right (or just scroll down to it).  For Traditonal Arabic, the hamzatu  
l-wasl appears on the third line, number 10 from the right.
 
This does not necessarily mean that Microsoft Word is a program to be  
favored by scholars.  Anyone preparing an annotated text should be  
aware that after a certain point on a any given page, footnotes may be  
improperly numbered.  I.e., the nineteenth and subsequent footnotes on  
a page may be numbered 1, 2, etc.  In these cases, the footnote text  
appears on the following page.  This problem exists in the English as  
well as the Arabic (and probably all other) editions.  I was told by a  
Microsoft employee that the problem goes back to Version 2, was buried  
"deep in the architecture," and was not likely to be fixed because it  
would cost too much to do so.  You have been warned!

Humphrey Davies

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