problem with Arabtex in Tex Live 2024

[Frank Mittelbach]

> You could use this as a work-around: 
 >
> \documentclass[12pt]{article} 
> \usepackage{arabtex} \usepackage{etoolbox} 
> \pretocmd\document{\endgroup}{}{\fail} %close document group 
> \usepackage{graphics} \begin{document} hello \end{document}

just for the record: it doesn't need etoolbox, but just the line

\AddToHook{cmd/document/before}{\endgroup}

in the preamble (which is doing basically the same thing using a generic 
LaTeX hook)

frank