Re: Arabic indexes

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 10 2002 - 09:21:47 EST


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> In the Arabic index, however, the indexed words appear with a page
> number before (that is, to the right) of them. Is this regular
> practice in Arabic indexing, or some bizarre bidi glitch?

No, it's not regular practice, AFAIK. But it may be the practice somewhere
I don't know of, or done intentionally for artistic values. I will be very
disappointed to find that it has been done mistakenly: publishers usually
care a lot about these matters.

BTW, I would love to see a screenshot.

roozbeh



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