Re: Editing Arabic TEI

Dear TEI-L,

Thanks very much to all who responded to my inquiry about editing Arabic
in <oXygen/>, and I have passed the information along to the colleague on
whose behalf I was asking.

Best,

David
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On 2017-03-02, 4:14 AM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion
list on behalf of Gioele Barabucci" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:

>Am 03.02.2017 um 09:53 schrieb Radu Coravu:
>> If you have some sample TEI documents and give us some hints about what
>> does not work as expected we could try to improve the behavior in a
>> future version. Unfortunately we do not use RTL writing ourselves so
>> sometimes it's hard for us to understand what the expected editing
>> behaviors should be, that's why we need help with this.
>
>Dear Radu, dear participants,
>
>we of the Averroes project (Uni of Cologne, DARE, CCeH) [1] have plenty
>of material I can send you to illustrate the "ergonomic" problems that
>editors are facing when using oXygen to edit Arabic but also Hebrew
>texts. I'll contact you privately.
>
>Mostly it has to do with a clash of expectations between what happens
>when letters are typed and how things appear on the screen, for example
>when Latin characters (tags or punctuation marks) and Arabic characters
>are on the same line.
>
>A concrete example. Suppose that A, B and C are Arabic letters and | is
>the cursor. If you type "<line>", then A, then B then C, you get the
>following result (correct)
>
><line>|CBA
>
>If, at that point, you type a period, you will get the incorrect
>
><line>|CBA.
>
>instead of correct version
>
><line>|.CBA
>
>I used "incorrect", but the behaviour is not really incorrect. As David
>said, one can see the engineering reasons behind it, but the editors are
>used to other word processing applications and the behaviour of oXygen
>just feels wrong to them.
>
>This is just an example. There are plenty of more complicated cases I
>can illustrate. Solving them would improve the quality of life of the
>editors and transcribers very much. ;)
>
>Regards,
>
>[1] 
>https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faverroes.u
>ni-koeln.de%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cdjbpitt%40PITT.EDU%7C0e01e5cbfd924718641908d
>44c151912%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=d6R%2ByVXcLnMw1FvbA
>7vipjIsrQgq2cXbvvY%2BKxHq1%2BQ%3D&reserved=0
>
>-- 
>Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>