[XeTeX] Farsi/Arabic

[Christoph Bier]

Loeghmon T. Nejad schrieb am 01.12.2006 17:44:

> François,
> 
> I have been reading your posts about ArabTex with much interest, even
> though I do not have xetex installed on my Debian yet! Would you, or
> others, kindly tell me, as a not particularly Latex/Linux savvy person,
> as how to setup a Debian Etch Farsi(Arabic)/English system, with a

(BTW: If you are not a savvy Linux user, why do you use Etch and not
Sarge?)

Because I'm not familiar with Farsi/Arabic typesetting I don't know
whether you need special things other than XeTeX and some packages
(I don't think so). I described how to install XeTeX on Debian in
this email: <eis7tb$m3m$1 at sea.gmane.org> (Subject: XeTeX for Debian)

> suitable editor of course?

Emacs + AUCTeX (but remember: I'm not familiar with Farsi/Arabic
typesetting)

> For example, what are my options? Is it like
> Debian/TexLive/Miktex/Arabi combination vs. Debinan/Xetex, or I do not
> know what I am talking about!! I appreciate your help.

Hm, /I/ don't know what /you/ are talking about :-). How to combine
Debian with MikTeX (except the MikTeX tools)?

Do you use TeXLive or teTeX with Debian? However, it makes no
difference for XeTeX: You can install XeTeX with teTeX and TeXLive.
AFAIK the next TeXLive release will even contain XeTeX!

Best,
   Christoph

PS: Just now I found that I wrote the installation instructions for
Debian mentioned above for you! If you really want help you
shouldn't ignore answers/questions of people who wanted to help you
... (I refer to <eit2i3$u7p$1 at sea.gmane.org> in the same thread
mentioned above).
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