[scribus] arabic

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/17/2012 04:31 AM, Jean-Louis Cordonnier wrote:
> I want to write this in a text frame :
> *Mahdia* (arabe : ???????) est une ville côtière...
> How can I get the arabic word from right to left ?
>

This remains clumsy. The worst case situation is when you want to have a 
bit of Arabic inside a frame with a left to right language. The bottom 
line is that it's probably not doable, at least in a straightforward way 
(see below).

Here is what I find using 1.4.1svn:

There is a button in Properties > Text > Color and Effects for right to 
left text -- the one with the backwards 'R' in it. Even if you are in 
Edit Contents mode, even with text highlighted, when you select this 
feature, all of the text in the frame switches to right to left.

I'll have to see if one might create a Paragraph style that might allow 
something more restricted.

One possible workaround worth trying, if you have only a single word in 
Arabic, would be to use inline graphics. This would require making a 
small frame with your Arabic and its right to left mode, then converting 
to outlines, then converting to image. Then copy this frame, at which 
time you can use this in another text frame in Edit Contents mode by 
pasting as you enter text.

Greg