NWP with both German and Arabic characters

[martin]

I dont know what you mean with "application"

Ah, an application is just another word for computer program / software. For example, Nisus Writer Pro, TextEdit, and Microsoft Word are all applications. We need to know exactly which application/program displays your text incorrectly.

Arabtest.doc does not display Arabic correctly. But by opening it with TextEdit everything os OK.
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(I have in the Mac Windows Office 2008 for Mac but I dont like it)

Microsoft Word for the Mac does not handle right-to-left languages.

So I can send my documents to collegues written and edited in Nisus Writer, exported as .doc by TextEdit or PDF.

Are you saying that ".doc" files exported by TextEdit open properly, but ".doc" files exported by Nisus Writer do not open properly? Which application/program are your colleagues using to view your file?

[Orientalist]

Most of them have Windows and will have all contributions as Word documents.
Exporting a bilingual text with Arabic written in Nisus Pro to Microsoft Word does not work (apperas as DOC), but it works properly when exported with Office (apperas as ODT), without saving the text as .doc

So I have now 3 possibilities starting with Nisus pro and sending it by Office, TextEdit oder PDF.

Thank you for your help

Orientalist

[Orientalist]

By the way, Martin: Nisus has a great development behind. I still have Nisus 6.5 on my old PowerBook and many years ago I suggested
to consider the footnotes in creating alphabetical lists of names (Index) in Arabic. (Since the footnotes were "no page"). So they did it. Now my question: what about considering the numbers of the footnotes?

[martin]

So I have now 3 possibilities starting with Nisus pro and sending it by Office, TextEdit oder PDF.

I'm still not entirely sure I understand your situation, but so long as you've found a solution that works for you, I'm happy!

I suggested to consider the footnotes in creating alphabetical lists of names (Index) in Arabic. (Since the footnotes were "no page"). So they did it.

I think I understand. You wanted to be able to mark text in the footnote area for inclusion in an index. This is something Nisus Writer Pro now allows, so all is well.

Now my question: what about considering the numbers of the footnotes?

I think you're saying that you want the footnote numbers to appear in the generated index somehow. How do you imagine the footnote numbers should be combined with the page numbers? Or do you want a separate index that only lists footnote text and the corresponding footnote numbers?

[Orientalist]

If an item in the Index is not in text of the page but only in the footnote of the page, the numebr of the footnote should be registered in brackets after the page number: 25 (3) = p. 25 note 3. Or something like: 25 /3. Or: page number and footnumber in superscript. Or: 25-3 footnote next to pagenumber in italics.

[martin]

Hrm.. page numbers in a generated index already use a dash to indicate ranges of pages, and italics/bold can be optionally applied to individual page numbers. I think if we added something like this we'd need to allow the user to choose just how the numbers are combined. I think we also have had requests to show the section number in a generated index. I'll file your idea too, thanks.

[Orientalist]

Martin: it is, of course. not a question of italics etc. It is the problem how to add the number of the footnote to the page number.
I can imagine also that the user has to create index from the footnotes having the possibility to add it to the general index.
By the way, indexing the footnotes is possible in Nisus 6.5 already and I am sure I was not the only one who suggested it many years ago.

I wish you and for all of us a solution for the question discussed above.