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    Default Do you have Italics/Bold in Arabic and Hebrew?

    Do you know if the idea of having Italics/Bold texts in Hebrew and/or Arabic exist?

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    Default Re: Do you have Italics/Bold in Arabic and Hebrew?

    I guess you have Iranic font style. That's basically the same as italics but it goes with the right-to-left direction of the script

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    True! Do you know if it's available in MS Word?

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    I just found that it was invented by Gholamhossein Mosaheb in the 50s. He was a mathematician from Iran. It was first thought for the Persian-Farsi language, and is now commonly applied/used to the Arabic language.

    Another nice example of the thin frontier between Science and Linguistics!

    What about Hebrew?

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    I don't know if something similar occurs in Hebrew.
    Anyway, applying italics to arabic/hebrew texts in MS Word is an non-sense, because it would not be right to tilt the font to the right when the reading order is right to left

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    Do you know how/where to install/download this "Iranic" style? I would love to try it!

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    It seems not to be a style you can add or install in Word. It is a back-slanted italic form to go with the right-to-left direction of the script

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    Default Re: Do you have Italics/Bold in Arabic and Hebrew?

    There is no italics in Chinese though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iyuanobi View Post
    There is no italics in Chinese though.
    Hi Iyuanobi,
    I've figured it out. So, how do you stress words when you need to emphasize something?

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    Default Re: Do you have Italics/Bold in Arabic and Hebrew?

    We use the underline feature usually.

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