How to manage notes in Arabic and English
August 30, 2024 2:59 PM   Subscribe

I am starting to learn Arabic as a complete beginner. Is there a website, program, or MS Word/Google docs setting that would allow me to have properly formatted Arabic text in one column/text box and corresponding properly formatted English text in another, without having to constantly mess with document settings?

I'd like to be able to organize typed notes in such a way that I can have reminders/details/rules/transliteration using English letters in the same document as my Arabic vocabulary and phrases. I'd prefer not to have to print out the Arabic version and hand write in English, or to have two separate documents. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?
posted by theotherdurassister to Writing & Language (3 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: What trouble are you running into?

If you've got a table, you should be able to set one column to RTL (right-to-left) and the other to LTR.
posted by trig at 4:06 PM on August 30, 2024 [1 favorite]


(And, of course, you should be able to set different font and size preferences for each column.)
posted by trig at 4:11 PM on August 30, 2024


Response by poster: Well that was easy! I didn't realize a table could do that... That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!
posted by theotherdurassister at 5:10 PM on August 30, 2024


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