[XeTeX] arabic

[Kamal Abdali]

My point was that some of the functionality of language-specific packages
is already built-in into XeTeX. Facility for inputting the text is one
such. ArabTeX has special Tex commands for representing individual Arabic
letters, and for turning vocalization on or off. These are redundant in
XeTeX. We can just type the text, adding vowel marks to any letter if
needed. Below is a (trivial) modification of the previous (trivial) program
to illustrate this (for those who are new to typesetting Arabic with TeX).

Of course, for advanced editing, you are better off using special packages.
Personally I am quite happy at present with the package polyglossia. It has
support for several languages, including most of the languages that use the
Arabic script. The nice thing is that you can mix texts from as many
languages and alphabets as you need. For the text direction control,
polyglossia has the bidi package loaded already.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\A[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4,WordSpace=2]{Amiri} % Scheherazade
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
{\A
مُثَلَّث
}& {\A
١٢٣٤
}&
Triangle
\end{tabular}

\end{document}
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 06:09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/4/3 Kamal Abdali <k.abdali at acm.org>:
> > With XeTeX, there seems less need of language-specific packages because
> the
> > characters of various alphabets can be directly typed. So this produces
> the
> > same output as Nathan's program:
> >
> In such a trivial case you certainly do not need other packages but
> for real use with an Arabic script you need at least the bidi package.
>
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > \usepackage{fontspec}
> > \newfontfamily\A[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4,WordSpace=2]{Amiri} %
> Scheherazade
> >
> > \begin{document}
> > \begin{tabular}{c c}
> > {\A
> > مثلث
> > } & {\A
> > ١٢٣٤
> > }
> > \end{tabular}
> >
> > \end{document}
> > =====================
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:15, Nathan Sidoli <nathan.sidoli at utoronto.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> This works for me:
> >> ------
> >> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
> >>
> >> \usepackage{fontspec}
> >>
> >> \usepackage[novoc,fdf2noalif]{arabxetex} %
> >> \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4,WordSpace=2]{Amiri} %
> >> Scheherazade
> >> \newcommand{\A}{\textarabic} % Tag for all Arabic text
> >>
> >> \begin{document}
> >>
> >> \begin{tabular}{c c}
> >> {\A{m_tl_t}} & {\A{1234}}
> >> \end{tabular}
> >>
> >> \end{document}
> >> --------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/04/01 23:37, Jean-Louis Cordonnier wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My tex file works properly with text only but gives an error if I want
> >>> to use tabular :
> >>>
> >>> \begin{tabular}[l]
> >>> \textarab[voc]{`arabI}
> >>> \end{tabular}
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Le 18/01/2012 18:55, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> 2012/1/18 Jean-Louis Cordonnier<jlcord2 at wanadoo.fr>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I try to write a few word in arabic ;
> >>>>> I get this error message :
> >>>>> Package bidi Error: Oops! you have loaded package xunicode before
> bidi
> >>>>> packag
> >>>>> e. Please load package xunicode after bidi package, and then try to
> run
> >>>>> xelatex
> >>>>> on your document again.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Load arabxetex before xltxtra. Arabxetex loads bidi, xltxtra loads
> >>>> xunicode.
> >>>>
> >>>>> I dont understand why (where in bidi documentation ?)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My file
> >>>>>
> >>>>> |\documentclass{article}
> >>>>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> >>>>> \newfontfamily{\arabicfont}[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.5]{Traditional
> >>>>> Arabic}
> >>>>> \usepackage{arabxetex}
> >>>>>
> >>>>> \begin{document}
> >>>>> \section{\textarab[utf]{العربية}}
> >>>>> \textarab[utf]{السلم عليكم و رحمت الله و بركته}
> >>>>>
> >>>>> \section{Legacy syntax}
> >>>>> When he goes---``Salamun alaykum!''\\
> >>>>> She replies—“Wa alaykumus-salam, dear!”
> >>>>> \end{document}|
> >>>>>
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