[XeTeX] Arabic in XeTeX

[John Was]

Dear Manuel

Many thanks for that.  I am not (yet) using the LaTeX implementation of 
XeTeX, but I'll keep a note of your list of commands, which will be useful 
when I get round to LaTeX.

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuel Souto Pico" <m.soutopico at gmail.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 8:22 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Arabic in XeTeX


> Hi,
>
> I've just seen this thread and my reply might arrive too late, but
> just in case here it goes.
>
> I've been using xelatex for some time to typeset examples in Arabic in
> my thesis dissertation.
>
> This is a simplified version of my document, I hope someone finds it
> useful now or in the future:
>
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex (percetange, admiration, etc.)
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt,oneside]{report}
> %\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    % more utf-8
> \usepackage[catalan,spanish,british]{babel}
> %\usepackage[OT2,OT1,LAE,LFE,T1]{fontenc}
>
> %%% FONTS
> \usepackage{fontspec}% provides font selecting commands
> \usepackage{xunicode}% provides unicode character macros
> \usepackage{xltxtra} % provides some fixes/extras
> \setromanfont{Palatino}%Times Roman}
>
> %%% ARABIC SCRIPT
> \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Scheherazade-AAT}
> \newcommand\arabi[1]{{\fontsize{18}{18}\arabicfont#1}}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> In Arabic, the verb and the subject agree: e.g. \arabi{هي تتكلم} 'she
> talks-fem' vs. \arabi{هو يتكلم} 'he talks-masc'.
>
> \end{document}
>
> Cheers, Manuel
>
>
>
> 2007/6/28, John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com>:
>> Many thanks (and to Jonathan) for that.  I realized after sending the PDF
>> that having set Arabic to Scheherezade I had immediately overwritten it 
>> with
>> another font call which reverted to Times Roman.  I got Scheherezade to 
>> work
>> but with reversed text and was about to ferret around for the right 
>> commands
>> when these helpful e-mails arrived.  I'm much obliged for all this help 
>> in
>> an unfamiliar area.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "François Charette" <firmicus at ankabut.net>
>> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:26 PM
>> Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Arabic in XeTeX
>>
>>
>> >
>> > In your pdf output the font is not Scheherazade, but Times New Roman.
>> > Also, your output left-to-right, whereas it should be right-to-left. 
>> > The
>> > following should work fine:
>> >
>> >
>> > \TeXXeTstate=1 % this turns e-TeX's bidi functionality on
>> > \let\lreverypar=\everypar
>> > \everypar={\setbox0=\lastbox \beginR \box0 } %this sets paragraphs from
>> > right to left
>> > \font\arabic = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at  12pt
>> > {\arabic
>> > فلقِنا [= شيخ من الصوفيّة وجماعة غُرَباء] في الطريق شيخاً من الحكماء 
>> > يقال
>> > له
>> > أبو الحسن العامريّ، وله كتابٌ في التصوُّف قد شَحَنَه بعِلمِنا وإشارتنا،
>> > وكان من
>> > الجَوَّالين الذين نَقَّبوا في البلاد واطّلعوا على أسرار ﷲ  في العباد؛}
>> > \vfill \eject
>> > \bye
>> >
>> > Note that in the Arabic sentence above I have removed the spaces before
>> > the Arabic punctuation. I have also replaced the letters of the third
>> > but last word (Allah) by the Unicode ligature U+FDF2 (see attachment):
>> > this is how the name of God should looking like in Arabic typography.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > François
>> >
>> >
>> > John Was a écrit :
>> >> Oops - seems I must still be doing something wrong.  My input is:
>> >>
>> >> \font\arabic = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at  12pt
>> >> {\arabic
>> >> فلقِنا [= شيخ من الصوفيّة وجماعة غُرَباء] في الطريق شيخاً من الحكماء 
>> >> يقال
>> >> له أبو الحسن العامريّ ، وله كتابٌ في التصوُّف قد شَحَنَه بعِلمِنا
>> >> وإشارتنا ،
>> >> وكان من الجَوَّالين الذين نَقَّبوا في البلاد واطّلعوا على أسرار الله 
>> >> في
>> >> العباد ؛}\vfill \eject
>> >> But my output is as per the attached PDF.
>> >>
>> >> Something amiss!
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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