Hello, <div><br></div><div>I would just update the list on one of the problems that I had, see below. I'd be grateful for any contribution or attempt to help.<br><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><br></div><div>3) How can I get the date in Arabic in the title? I mean like ٣٠ كانون الثاني ٢٠١٠ or ٣٠ فبراير ٢٠١٠, which are just January 30, 2010 in Arabic, not the Hijra date according to the lunar calendar... When I used babel long ago I would put arabic as the last item in the list of parameters of the package declaration, but what should I do with arabxetex or polyglossia? I've tried \date{\arab \today} and \date{\begin{Arabic}\today\end{Arabic}}, respectively, but the result is far from good.</div>
</blockquote></div><div><br>I think polyglossia has some options for this but I am not sure. Read the manual of polyglossia and it should contain all the details.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>
Well, I did, but it's not clear to me. Section 5 talks about language-specific options and commands but I don't know how to use them or where to put them. I've tried all around. It seems what I need is calendar=gregorian but that's the default option already.</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>From what the polyglossia manual says (section 5.1), I understand I should get the gregorian alphabet by default. However, without defining any calendar I get <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; ">1431 �afar 29 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">instead of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; ">٢٠١٠ طابش ١٤ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/www.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf">http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/www.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">That probably means that, unless the package fails, I don't know how to define the calendar. I don't know how to define the locale, either. Could anyone enlighten me as to how I should use the options and end-user commands listed in section 5.1? </span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">This is my minimal example:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>%!TEX TS-program = xelatex-xdvipdfmx </div><div>%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode</div><div><br></div><div>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}</div><div>\usepackage{polyglossia}</div><div>\setmainlanguage{arabic}</div>
<div>\setotherlanguage{galician}</div><div>\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Scale=1.5,Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}</div><div> </div><div>\title{السلام عليكم}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{document}</div><div>\maketitle</div>
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وعليكم السلام</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Scheherazade; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">\end{document} </span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot! </div><div>Manuel</div></div></div></div>