  MathML in Arabic  From: Azzeddine LAZREK <lazrek@ucam.ac.ma>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:37:40 -0000 (WET) Message-ID: <1216.>
To: <www-math@w3.org>  Nice to see this initiative. First I
would like to give some general remarks about Mathematics in an
Arabic handbook. In some contexts, mathematical expressions in
Arabic handbooks are written exactly as if they were in a Latin
based script language. In other contexts, these expressions are
composed with specific symbols and flow from right to left
according to the Arabic writing. Symbols, like natural language
characters, show a dynamic curvilinear cursivity. Such writing
can be observed in other Arabic alphabet based languages such as
Persian. We can find also the Latin presentation in some Arabic
countries especially in some high level handbooks. Arabic
mathematical expressions present several differences compared to
their Latin equivalents. Semantically speaking, a mathematical
expression written in Arabic is exactly the same that a Latin
based script equival