ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the
Arabic
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and
Hebrew
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alphabet
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s to
TeX
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and
LaTeX
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. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take
romanized
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ASCII
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or native script input to produce quality ligatures for
Arabic
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,
Persian,
Urdu
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,
Pashto
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,
Sindhi,
Western Punjabi (Lahnda),
Maghribi,
Uyghur
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,
Kashmiri,
Hebrew
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,
Judeo-Arabic
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,
Ladino and
Yiddish
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. ArabTeX characters are placed within a TeX/LaTeX document using the command
\RL or the environment
\begin ... \end. ArabTeX is released under the
LaTeX Project Public License v1+.
Example
\novocalize
\RL
\documentclass 2pt \usepackage
\begin
\setarab
\fullvocalize
\transtrue
\arabtrue
\begin
bismi al-ll_ahi al-rra.hm_ani al-rra.hImi
العربية
\end
\end
Common commands
*
\setarab (set language specific rendering)
*
\setfarsi (set language specific rendering)
*
\setuighur (set language specific rendering)
*
\set... (more language conventions, see the documentation)
*
\novocalize (individual vowel marks can be displayed using "a, "i, "u)
*
\vocalize (individual vowel marks can be cancelled using "a, "i, "u)
*
\fullvocalize (individual vowel marks can be cancelled using "a, "i, "u)
*
\setcode (switch input encodings)
*
\settrans (switch transliteration conventions)
Character table
Note that one can also overcome the problem with
containing dots using the \yahnodots command.
See also
* XePersian
* FarsiTeX
* XeTeX
* ArabLuaTex
* List of TeX extensions
References
External links
ArabTeX package pageDocumentation (pdf)
* tp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm Download
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