[XeTeX] sectioning commands with arabxetex

Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm abdulrhman.niz at cas.edu.om
Tue Mar 15 12:03:59 CET 2011


documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Scale=1.5,Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}

\begin{document}
...
\section{أسس الطباعه الحديثة}
...
\subsection{الخطوط الرقمية  \textenglish{(Fonts)}}
...
\end{document}

Thanks?


On 15 March 2011 14:45, Vafa Khalighi <vafakhlgh at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is your minimal example?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm <
> abdulrhman.niz at cas.edu.om> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Now with polyglossia I can typeset arabic in sectioning commands, however,
>> I still have Arabic-indic numbering typeset from right to left (i.e. 3.1 is
>> show 1.3). Is this something to do with the internal code of \section
>> command?
>>
>>
>> On 15 March 2011 10:32, Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm <
>> abdulrhman.niz at cas.edu.om> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank Vafa. I refrained from using Arabxetex and rather discovered
>>> polyglossia
>>> which solved the problem for now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 March 2011 09:55, Vafa Khalighi <vafakhlgh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do not put your sectioning commands inside RTL environment (arab).
>>>>
>>>> 2011/3/15 Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm <abdulrhman.niz at cas.edu.om>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am preparing a manuscript with arabxetex and facing a problem with
>>>>> sectioning commands (\section,\subsec...),
>>>>> basically the problem is that I get Arabic digits instead of
>>>>> Arabic-indic and also the numbering is typeset right to
>>>>> left (i.e. 1.3 for 3.1) the code snippet looks as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> \begin{arab}
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> \subsection{\textarab{الخطوط الرقمية} \textLR{(Fonts)}}
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> \end{arab}
>>>>>
>>>>> I am also planning to include figures with captions and presume the
>>>>> same problem.
>>>>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Abdulrahman AAl Abdulsalam
>>>>> Assistant Lecturer - IT Department
>>>>> College of Applied Science
>>>>> P.O. Box 699
>>>>> Nizwa, 611
>>>>> Oman
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> If some one say: "You divide ten into two parts: multiply the one by
>>>> itself; it will be equal to the other taken eighty-one times." Computation:
>>>> You say, ten less thing, multiplied by itself, is a hundred plus a square
>>>> less twenty things, and this is equal to eighty-one things. Separate the
>>>> twenty things from a hundred and a square, and add them to eighty-one. It
>>>> will then be a hundred plus a square, which is equal to a hundred and one
>>>> roots. Halve the roots; the moiety is fifty and a half. Multiply this by
>>>> itself, it is two thousand five hundred and fifty and a quarter. Subtract
>>>> from this one hundred; the remainder is two thousand four hundred and fifty
>>>> and a quarter. Extract the root from this; it is forty-nine and a half.
>>>> Subtract this from the moiety of the roots, which is fifty and a half. There
>>>> remains one, and this is one of the two parts.
>>>>
>>>> *Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Abdulrahman AAl Abdulsalam
>>> Assistant Lecturer - IT Department
>>> College of Applied Science
>>> P.O. Box 699
>>> Nizwa, 611
>>> Oman
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Abdulrahman AAl Abdulsalam
>> Assistant Lecturer - IT Department
>> College of Applied Science
>> P.O. Box 699
>> Nizwa, 611
>> Oman
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
>>  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> If some one say: "You divide ten into two parts: multiply the one by
> itself; it will be equal to the other taken eighty-one times." Computation:
> You say, ten less thing, multiplied by itself, is a hundred plus a square
> less twenty things, and this is equal to eighty-one things. Separate the
> twenty things from a hundred and a square, and add them to eighty-one. It
> will then be a hundred plus a square, which is equal to a hundred and one
> roots. Halve the roots; the moiety is fifty and a half. Multiply this by
> itself, it is two thousand five hundred and fifty and a quarter. Subtract
> from this one hundred; the remainder is two thousand four hundred and fifty
> and a quarter. Extract the root from this; it is forty-nine and a half.
> Subtract this from the moiety of the roots, which is fifty and a half. There
> remains one, and this is one of the two parts.
>
> *Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī*
>
>


-- 
Abdulrahman AAl Abdulsalam
Assistant Lecturer - IT Department
College of Applied Science
P.O. Box 699
Nizwa, 611
Oman
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