Arabic Translation of the MathML start page

[Frédéric WANG]

Hi all,

I wrote to these mailing lists some times ago to announce the new MathML
bidi support in Firefox 12, which is important for Arabic mathematical
formulas. In Bugzilla, there is an old bug [1] about translating the
MathML start page [2] in Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Chinese in order to
see how MathML and BiDi/CTL work together. A student recently translated
the start page in Chinese, so the only remaining language from those
asked by the initial bug reporter is Arabic...

Similarly to Hebrew, the directionality of Arabic text is right-to-left.
However, it is also interesting to note that in some countries the
directionality of the mathematical formulas can be left-to-right [1] and
in other countries it can be right-to-left [2]. Thanks to the new MathML
bidi support, it is now possible to display the latter in Firefox 12. I
think it would be great to have an Arabic translation of the MathML
start page, using both styles to demonstrate all these possibilities.

Any volunteers from the Mozilla Arabic community to do this translation?
Or to become a mentor [5] for this bug?

Thanks,

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192644
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/start.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Moroccan
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Maghreb
[5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mentors

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[Rami Khader]

Hi Frédéric,
Thanks for raising up this, I am ready to do this..
Just let me know how I can start and when.

Best regards,
Rami
*Mozillian, and proud to be*
Arabic Mozilla <http://www.arabicmozilla.org>

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Frédéric WANG <fred...@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wrote to these mailing lists some times ago to announce the new MathML
> bidi support in Firefox 12, which is important for Arabic mathematical
> formulas. In Bugzilla, there is an old bug [1] about translating the MathML
> start page [2] in Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Chinese in order to see how
> MathML and BiDi/CTL work together. A student recently translated the start
> page in Chinese, so the only remaining language from those asked by the
> initial bug reporter is Arabic...
>
> Similarly to Hebrew, the directionality of Arabic text is right-to-left.
> However, it is also interesting to note that in some countries the
> directionality of the mathematical formulas can be left-to-right [1] and in
> other countries it can be right-to-left [2]. Thanks to the new MathML bidi
> support, it is now possible to display the latter in Firefox 12. I think it
> would be great to have an Arabic translation of the MathML start page,
> using both styles to demonstrate all these possibilities.
>
> Any volunteers from the Mozilla Arabic community to do this translation?
> Or to become a mentor [5] for this bug?
>
> Thanks,
>

> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=192644<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192644>
> [2] http://www.mozilla.org/**projects/mathml/start.html<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/start.html>
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-**math/#Moroccan<http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Moroccan>
> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-**math/#Maghreb<http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Maghreb>
> [5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/**Mentors <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mentors>
>
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> Frédéric Wang
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[Frédéric WANG]

Salam,

Currently, the MathML start page is not on MDN (hopefully it will when
MDN supports insertion of SVG/MathML fragments on Wiki pages). So the
preferred method is the standard submission process: create a patch,
attach it to Bugzilla and ask a review:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/How_to_Submit_a_Patch

I can review the MathML changes but ideally a native Arabic speaker
should also double-check the translation.

The first step is to download the mathml directory with this command:

svn co https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/mozilla.org/trunk/projects/mathml/

Then move to mathml/ and copy the English start page:

svn copy start.html start-ar.html

That should create a new page start-ar.html, tracked by svn. You can then do

svn diff > patch.diff

to create a patch.

If you are not familiar with svn or are not able to use it, we may find
an alternative submission method.

In any cases, for those who want to help, I suggest moving the
discussion to the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192644

Thank you everybody.

> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192644
> [2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/start.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Moroccan
> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/#Maghreb

> [5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mentors
>
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> Frédéric Wang
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