Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 53465
Arabic letters as page numbers use wrong alphabet order
Last modified: 2013-07-30 02:40:18 UTC
OpenOffice.org 1.9.x you can insert the page number field as Arabic letters rather than as numbers. This is great, but it uses the wrong alphabet order. When you use Arabic numbers in the same way that in English we use Roman numerals (such as to number items in a list), you don't use the regular alphabetic order: alif baa' taa' thaa' jiim... Rather, you use the "abjad hawwaz" order: alif baa' jiim daal haa'... I posted a query on Arabeyes.org about this issue, and the one response i got concurred with me. The responder provided the entire "abgad hawwaz" mnemonic: abjad hawwaz HuTTi kalaman sa'faS qarashat thakhadh DaZagh OOo is currently using the regular alphabetic order. It should be changed to use the "abjad hawwaz" order.
FT->YBA: I have no idea if this would be ok or not. Please give your comment (even that Arabic is not your main lingo) Thx a lot.
Here is a graphic of the full abjad hawwaz order: http://www.submission.org/miracle/gematrical.html It goes top to bottom, right to left. This is the order that introductory pages in books is most commonly numbered. Microsoft Word also gives the option to the user to number pages based on the modern regular order of the alphabet as well (as already doable in OpenOffice) but I haven't seen books that were numbered according to the regular modern alphabet order, it's almost always the abjad hawwaz order. To check the abjad hawwaz order in Microsoft Word, do this: 1) On the Insert menu, click Page Numbers, and then click Format. 2) Click the arrow to the right of the Number format box, and choose the Abjad Hawwaz order. Then create some pages to demonstrate the numbering of the pages. Please keep in mind that Microsoft Word 2003 has a bug at the very end of its Abjad Hawwaz page numbering sequence. The last letter in Word 2003 in the sequence is Za/Dha whereas the last letter should be Ghain. Please don't hesitate to contact me for further information. Thanks, Mete
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