Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:39:02PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 23:18 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> > * Package name : othman
> > * License : Waqf Public License
> > Description : electronic Quran browser
> >
> > Othman electronic Quran browser displays Quranic text in Othmani script style
> > as written under authority of Othman ibn Affan the companion of prophet
> > Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
>
> Regarding the long description,
>
> Not everyone knows that "Othmani script" is a script for Arabic. (I
> didn't know it anyway;) So it might be worth mentioning that the text is
> in Arabic only (is it?).
>
> > Othman project features fast search, autoscrolling
> I suggest "Othman brower features fast search and autoscrolling"
Thanks for the above suggestions.
> Copy/Paste is a trivial feature. You might want to drop it from the
> description (except if this feature is fairly unique for Quran readers)
Yes, the uniqueness is that copy/paste can actually copy the text in
the non-Othmani arabic script (called Imla'i script, that's an arabic
word transliterated, I dunno the proper translation unfortunately). This
is because usually text processors (& fonts) do not support the Othmani
script, hence pasting the verse in a text processor for example would
give un-readable result.
> I wonder who many people use the word "Coran" for Qur'an in English. If
> this is quite frequent, you might want insert this synonym somewhere in
> the description.
I realized that people using the word "Coran" have french background.
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