HOW TO TYPE DOCUMENTS IN PERSIAN WITH MICROSOFT WORD
A WINDOWS TUTORIAL

Disclaimer:  It is a mere accident of birth that I was born in Seattle.  I don't have anything to do with the Microsoft plant on yonder side of the lake...

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Windows98

   
u Document and font samples    
u Tips (pdf file)    
u Word Doc Templates To help you get started with Word.  (Includes free demo of why we need a real Persian Unicode font.)    
u How to Convert your Word Document to a PDF file  
u How to make an image (.gif or .jpg) from your Word Document (including WordArt)  
u How to make lines of poetry have the same length  
u The Persian letter Yeh  
  u Heh+Hamzeh  
  u The Persian letter Kaf  Of particular interest to those of you from Qazvin...    
  u Special Persian Spaces:   Zero-Width Non-Joiner  

                                                 Zero-Width Joiner

                                                 Normal Word Space

                                                 Narrow No-Break Space

 

u Persian Numerals including page numbers
u Persian Fonts , or lack thereof.  A long discourse, more on pirating than anything else. Also, a trip to Mount Rainier National Park.
u Persian Keyboard including the Arabic letters  
u Matters of Style, Standards and Conventions  A collection of articles, some humorous, some serious
u Technical Terminology
u Beyond Word-processing  A REALLY BIG Microsoft bug!!
u Webpage Font Embedding

u Info for Mac Users About Persian Computing on a Macintosh, or lack thereof

u Scholar's Corner Fonts & keyboard for transliterated Perso-Arabic according to Library of Congress system.

u What's New on this Website Go right to the new stuff

u Send me feedbackThank you for all the encouragement, questions and suggestions!!

Site created: Feb 2002

Updated: Jan  2005

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