[XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

[Jens Bakker]

Hello Hartmut,

thank you very much for your kind reply, I am happy that this very modest hint was useful for you.

With best wishes and best regards,
Jens


> Am 24.06.2024 um 10:19 schrieb Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org>:
> 
> Hello Jens,
>  
> yes, it does. I have switched from arabxetex to polyglossia, needed to fix a few font specifications, and now the results look correct (says out Egyptian intern).
> The automatic RTL-LTR switching depending on the Unicode script information works perfectly, with the special case that we will
> use non-breakable spaces u00a0 in some places to keep the sequence of non-arabic text fragments as needed.
>  
> Thank you for your help!
>  
> Hartmut
>  
>  
> Von: XeTeX <xetex-bounces+hartmut.niemann=siemens.com at tug.org <mailto:xetex-bounces+hartmut.niemann=siemens.com at tug.org>> Im Auftrag von Jens Bakker
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2024 16:47
> An: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex at tug.org <mailto:xetex at tug.org>>
> Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8
>  
> Hello Hartmut Niemann,
>  
> may be that the XeLaTex-package polyglossia could serve your purposes better much better. You could use many languages in one document, also Arabic and other RTL text.
>  
> Best wishes and best regards,
> Jens Bakker
>  
>  
> 
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> Am 11.06.2024 um 12:06 schrieb Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org <mailto:xetex at tug.org>>:
>  
> 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?
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> 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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