FrameMaker V7.1 (English) Windows XP Pro SP2 Multi-lingual in Arabic language environment
I am unable to access the archives to view any previous discussions on this matter. There are websites out there that suggest you can force FrameMaker to play the game with Arabic text. I am currently massaging English templates to use with Arabic text, and having to overcome many obstacles; so far I have discovered some workarounds to achieve the same end, so I have kept going. Our biggest obstacle is the random insertion of text (not at the cursor point), and application of character tags and conditional tags that change the selected text to something completely different. I am assuming that this is due to the lack of support for unicode characters. This appears to be a show-stopper. Has anyone had any success in this field? Are there any plug-ins available? Is it time to abandon commonsense and resort to Word? If it can work, does anyone know of an Arabic dictionary that can be slotted into the file system for use with FrameMaker? Currently I have assigned None as the language in all paragraph and character tags, but it would be most useful to assign an Arabic dictionary. Regards, Tanya Griffin Technical Documentation Manager Codan Limited 81 Graves Street NEWTON SA 5074 Phone: +61 8 8305 0457 Fax: +61 8 8305 0411 Email: tanya.griffin at codan.com.au