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GOVERNMENT USERS
Conference
“Navigating the Human Terrain”
College Park, MD, May 20-21, 2008
GeoScope Map Viewer &
Arabic Editor
— Arabic Desktop Suite Tutorial
Tina Lieu Youssef Fayed
Director of Knowledge Management Software Analyst
Basis Technology Basis TechnologyArabic Desktop Suite
Easy-to-install Windows desktop software
Arabic Editor - Type Arabic using a standard
Western keyboard
GeoScope - Locates places on a Middle Eastern
map
Covered in next tutorial:
Transliteration Assistant - Transliterates Arabic
names into English
Knowledge Center - Reference for world leader
names, plus Arabic names and words
2Focus of this tutorial
Arabic Editor
Word processing plain text Arabic with a Western
keyboard
Arabic reading aids for gisting
Assumes some Arabic knowledge
GeoScope
For viewing maps and finding locations in English
or Arabic
Arabic input or “fuzzy transliteration”
No Arabic knowledge required
3Arabic Editor
4Arabic Editor Functions
Typing in Arabic
Editing Arabic
“Gisting”: Arabic-English word look-up
View Grammatical Analysis function
Searching Arabic text
Via Arabic or Latin transliteration
Transliterating English Arabic
5Typing Arabic
Use a standard Western keyboard
Input using the Basis Transliteration Scheme
Easily learned within an hour
Completely reversible Arabic English system
6Basis Transliteration System
b d S f h ب د ص ف ه
d
t D q wت ذ ض ق و h
th r T k yث ر ط ك ي
j z Z l ' ج ز ظ ل ء
H s m` ح س ع م
kh sh gh n خ ش غ ن
7Uppercase for Emphatic Consonants
Use the Shift key to d Dد ض choose between
consonants.
h Hه ح Don’t capitalize
names when typing.
s Sس ص Automatic
capitalization of
t Tت ط transliterated names
is available.
z Zز ظ
8Vowels
Input Produces Input Produces
a, e fatHä aa fatHä alif
o, u Dammä
'aa alif with
i kasrä maddä above
fatHä taa'
ai, ei, ay fatHä yaa' a+
marbuuTä
ii, ee, iy kasrä yaa'
fatHä alif
ae uu, ou, Dammä maqSuurä
oo, uw waaw
superscript
^ au, aw fatHä waaw (quSayr) alif
9Vowels, ain, hamza, teh marbuta
Input Output English Example of:
With vowelsبت ك م
maktab office
Without vocalization; toggle بتكم vocalization off/on, click
Long vowel = two vowelsaabar wellsربآ
ain = backquote `
teh marbutah = a+`aa'ila+ familyة ل ئاع
hamza =apostrophe '
hamza (forced)= *aDwaA* illnessءاو$ د& ا
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