[XeTeX] Polyglossia and ArabXeTeX

[Adam McCollum]

Hi Nathan,

Others may have more to say, but I happen to have looked around  
yesterday due to the same problem and found that putting the line  
below in the preamble seems to solve the problem:

\let\aemph\veryundefinedcommand

Best wishes,

Adam

On Aug 18, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Nathan Sidoli wrote:

> Is it possible to use polyglossia with arabxetex? It seems that both  
> of them define the command \aemph. Since they both define it in the  
> same way, it doesn't really matter, but it would be nice if there  
> were no error message. Maybe each of them could be made to check if  
> the command is already defined. Or is there some way to manually  
> clear the definition before calling in the a later package.
>
> Below is a minimal example.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathan
>
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{french}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Junicode}
>
> \usepackage[novoc,fdf2noalif]{arabxetex}
> \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1,WordSpace=2]{Amiri}
>
> \newcommand{\A}{\textarabic}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Nous adoptons {\it al-mu\b ht\=ariq\/} pour les raisons de sens et  
> de graphie: {\it i\b htaraqa \/} = inventer un mensonge [$\,$Fl 
> \"ugel a \A{m.hrrq}$\,$; mais une autre lecture serait \A{m_hrrf}$\, 
> $,  << charlatan~>>$\,$].
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
>
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