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face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">The following shows up
correctly in Microsoft Word in a file that was sent to me, and seems to be
correct in this email. But when I try to typeset it in XeTeX by
pasting it into a UFT-8 file (using Babelpad as my editor) the words are
all transposed - see the attached PDF for the
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<DIV><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-EG dir=rtl
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Scheherazade; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-EG"><SPAN
dir=rtl></SPAN>١. قال أبو على~.~.~.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>وهو [=أنبادقلس] وأنكساغورس يقولان إن الموجودات واحد وكثير أما كثير فمن
قبل المادة وأما واحد فمن قبل أن<SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference>***</SPAN>
الفاعل الذي يميزها هو واحد وهو العقل</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=AR-EG dir=rtl
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face="Arial Unicode MS" size=3>I'm not an Arabist so it's not clear to me what
could be going wrong. To make quite sure that I was not introducing any
error in setting up my \arabic command I pasted this quotation into a section of
Arabic that I had previously typeset correctly, and everything comes out
properly except this new bit of text.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Arial Unicode MS" size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=AR-EG dir=rtl
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Scheherazade; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-EG"><FONT
face="Arial Unicode MS" size=3> It may simply be that there is some trick
in the saving or copying/pasting that I haven't picked up. Any help much
appreciated</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Arial Unicode MS" size=3>John</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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