[protext] Arabic Tex

[Ahmed Alashwah]

Anas, I have tried ArabTex with MikeTex, but I'm having problem getting it
to work.  Do you have any written materials regarding using ArabTex?  Are
you in the States?

Karl, I am sorry I did not get back to you, because I was trying to get it
to work first and then have something to report back to you.

Ahmed 

-----Original Message-----
From: Anas Ghrab [mailto:anas.ghrab at saramusik.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:18 AM
To: Karl Berry
Cc: protext at tug.org; lazrek at ucam.ac.ma; aa at itrize.com
Subject: Re: [protext] Arabic Tex


I've tried Omega some months ago but I couldn't get any text in arabic. 
I didn't found any documentation or examples, so I left it. Now, its 
web site seems to be back and it has a mailing-list, it worth to be 
tested again (recently, someone asked for an arabic example on the 
mailing-list; I hope I'll see an answer soon).

So, I've tried ArabTeX and I'm using in it now for my PhD, with the 
help of its documentation. I have no problem with it for basic matters 
and wrote about 80 pages of arabic text. It works good inside text with 
latin caracters (for me, french). It can also use UTF-8. Now it have a 
problem with footnotes, but K. Lagally is working on that (if his 
health problems does not come back again).

If you try ArabTeX and need a help with basics, you can ask me.

Best,

--
Anas Ghrab
http://anas.ghrab.com

Le 4 avr. 05, à 23:08, Karl Berry a écrit :

> Hello Ahmed,
>
>     I am interested in installing tex in Arabic; any advice?
>
> To my knowledge, there are two basic possibilites: Omega and ArabTeX.  
> I
> don't know the pros and cons, though.
>
> I'm cc-ing Azzeddine Lazrek and Anas Ghrab, with whom I was discussing
> the subject recently.  Perhaps one of them can give you some advice.
>
> Happy typesetting,
> karl