[XeTeX] arabic

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/4/5 Andy Lin <kiryen at gmail.com>:
> I've made teckit mappings for Persian that output different levels of
> vocalization (none, some, full) and romanization (1 to 1, common), all
> from the same source. You don't get that kind of flexibility if you

This is already done in ArabXeTeX. The package name refers to the
Arabic script, not to the Arabic language. I wrote a small document in
Urdu using ArabXeTeX.

> type directly in Arabic script unless you vocalize everything to begin
> with. Granted, not everyone needs this kind of functionality (I was
> making vocabulary sheets for class), but one of the strengths of LaTeX
> is that you have the option of doing things in different ways, no?
>
> But to address the original posts:
> There's actually a typo in the second example, which is why it doesn't
> run. There's no problem with arabxetex.
> \begin{tabular}[l] % should read \begin{tabular}{l}
> \textarab[voc]{`arabI}
> \end{tabular}
>
> Also, I have bidi version 1.2.6, and the original example actually
> works fine and in fact bidi refers to xltxtra specifically and asks
> that it (xltxtra) be loaded first.
>
AFAIK xltxtra is required by fontspec.

> Hope this helps,
> Andy
>
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