[XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

[Niemann, Hartmut]

Hello Zdeněk,

thank you for your hints. What a wonderful book!
I’ll take the TeX code of your tools package as a start and experiment with it. Maybe I will need to adopt to mark the latin characters and not rely on automatic switching between latin LtoR and Arabic RtoL.

Hartmut

Von: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2024 12:22
An: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex at tug.org>
Cc: Niemann, Hartmut (SMO RS LMC EN LM CCI FT) <hartmut.niemann at siemens.com>
Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

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<mailto:xetex at tug.org>> napsal:
Hello!

In my current project I use XeLaTeX to typeset PDF files from texts in different languages held in a separate database.
(This is done with a generator that is language-unaware, generating lines like
\long\def\msgtext{عطل في التهيئة البنيوماتية GS}
Into a .inc file and a manually written, language dependent, frame document that defines \msgtext{}

I typeset a (mostly) Arabic document using XeLaTeX and \usepackage{arabxetex}[utf]

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.
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.

Does anybody how to switch off arabxetex’s ASCII-to-arabic conversion completely?

Or is there a package that supports Arabic (with Arabic typographic conventions) but made for pure Unicode sources?

With best regards

Hartmut Niemann



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