[XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hello,

I have not used Arabic but Urdu which uses a modified Arabic script. I have
a book written in Czech with just small parts in Hindi and Urdu and I do it
in XeLaTeX with the polyglossia package. A very small sample of the book is
here: http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/bharat.php

The page contains a link to the presentation of typesetting the book. The
slides are in Czech because it was a national conference but slide #10
shows that the line break in the Urdu text is correct although the main
language of the paragraph is Czech.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/


út 11. 6. 2024 v 12:07 odesílatel Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org>
napsal:

> Hello!
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> In my current project I use XeLaTeX to typeset PDF files from texts in
> different languages held in a separate database.
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> (This is done with a generator that is language-unaware, generating lines
> like
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> \long\def\msgtext{عطل في التهيئة البنيوماتية GS}
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> Into a .inc file and a manually written, language dependent, frame
> document that defines \msgtext{}
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> I typeset a (mostly) Arabic document using XeLaTeX and
> \usepackage{arabxetex}[utf]
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> Arabxetex supports encoding Arabic in ASCII, and this interferes with the
> fact, that our texts have latin characters, like English abbreviations,
> location IDs and such.
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> The documented solution would be enclosing these latin characters which
> are to be typeset verbally into \text{LR}, which is rather hard if the text
> comes from a database.
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> Does anybody how to switch off arabxetex’s ASCII-to-arabic conversion
> completely?
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> Or is there a package that supports Arabic (with Arabic typographic
> conventions) but made for pure Unicode sources?
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> With best regards
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> Hartmut Niemann
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