In theory, there is no trick. Just type the right-to-left characters and KWord 
should work.

(However, as far as I know, there were right-to-left problems in KOffice 1.2 
that do not exist anymore in KOffice 1.2.1. May be it is the problem that you 
have.)

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 06:37, Dr. Guido Nierhauve wrote:
> Dear KOffice Users,
>
> I installed a fine RedHat 8.0 distribution (Qt > 3.0.0) for a friend from
> Egypt. He is really not familiar with Linux but he is working with it
> like every normal user. We have seen on the koffice web page, that
> kword is able to write arabic. We also found an example bidi.kwd, which
> shows hebrew text. But we do not know, how to switch to hebrew or
> even arabic text.
>
> We installed the rpms koffice-devel-1.2-0.rc1.4 and koffice-1.2-0.rc1.4
> and the internationalisation tar archive koffice-i18n-1.2. Additionally
> we installed some arabic fonts (font server xfs) we can use with
> lyx. But what is the trick to get an output like the screenshot
> we have seen on the koffice web page?
>
> What we have to do for an arabized kword?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
>                     Guido
>
> ==========================================
> Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Phys. Guido Nierhauve
>
> Dr. Nierhauve Industrietechnik
> Germany
> Email: guido@nierhauve.de
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