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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>hope this finds everyone well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Well, my problem will certainly look a bit stupid but there is a story behind it I probably should start with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In 2007/8 my colleague and me wanted to edit an Arabic manuscript and we decided to do it with XeTeX. Everything works fine so far. But when in 2009 the funding ended we were force to put the project aside. Now, five years later we decide to bring the project to an end and I started to work with XeTeX again. Since we already finished the editing process I just needed to add some corrections and everything seems fine. But then, I did something very stupid. I connected the old laptop at which we had installed Mik Tex and Tex Maker with the internet and the program tried to make an update.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There I recognized five years won’t pass without new technological developments. Now my system tells me that I should switch to the current version of Mik Tex and Tex Maker too, has already been developed further. I would have continued to use the old version if it had functioned normally. But obviously it doesn’t work normally anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For this, I downloaded and installed the Mik Tex 2.9 and tried to open the old files with it. But this does not work properly either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I probably need to change just a few settings but after five years of not working with XeTeX at all I am simply overstrained with it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If anyone could help me I would be more than grateful for that! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here are some basic information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We used: Mik Tex 2.7; Tex Maker; ArabXetex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We needed two different footnote settings, one for the edition (in Arabic) and one for comments in English. If things would be easier with just one type of footnote that would be good too. We would put the comments at another place in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please find attached also an example with a PDF of a earlier version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hope, that there is a solution for my problem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mohammad Gharaibeh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>_____________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Dr. Mohammad Gharaibeh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Scientific Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>University Bonn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>"History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517)"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Heussallee 18-24<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>53113 Bonn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Tel.: +49 (0) 228/73-62941<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Fax: +49 (0) 228/73-62964<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt'>Mobile: +49 (0) 0163/8922005<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a href="mailto:gharaibeh@mamluk.uni-bonn.de">gharaibeh@mamluk.uni-bonn.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>