<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 20 Feb 2008, at 4:21 pm, John Was wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><P class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hello</FONT></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><FONT 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 result.</FONT> <O:P></O:P></FONT></P><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> <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"></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">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> <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"></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> <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"></SPAN> </DIV> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You didn't include your .tex source, so it's hard to be sure, but my guess is that you're lacking a \beginR directive before the Arabic text. That's necessary to get right-to-left line layout.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(And remember to set \TeXXeTstate=1 at the beginning of the file, otherwise \beginR will not be allowed.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>JK</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>