ARABIC • FARSI • URDU
Arabic is included in Lingua, an add-on to the Nota Bene Workstation
Nota Bene’s Arabic, Farsi and Urdu module(s) are included in the Lingua add-on module, and can be used in the word processor proper, in Ibidem bibliographic databases, and in Orbis (free-form text retrieval)
Included in each module is everything you need to work in that language:
Keyboard files (both a national and a mnemonic layout for each language)
(keyboards can be customized using a menu)
Automatic right-to-left typing and editing
Language/alphabet switching keyboard shortcuts
Rendering tables for highest quality placement of accents
Accent tables (F6 has been updated for Arabic)
Nota Bene’s Arabic/Farsi/Urdu modules utilize standard Windows fonts—you can use any Windows font, as long as the font includes the Arabic alphabet characters supported by Lingua. As with other languages, you can choose any size from 4 point to over 250 point.
In addition, special features specific to the Arabic alphabet are supported:
Automatic contextualization of character forms (initial, medial, final, standalone)
Manual override of automatic contextualization
Special zero-width joiner and non-joiner characters
Automatic tatweel insertion for justification
Automatic generation of lam-alef ligature
“Smart numbers”—select between Arabic (European), Arabic (Arabic), and Farsi/Urdu glyphs
Koranic accent marks
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