ArabTeX

{{Short description|Free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets}}

ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets to TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take romanized ASCII or native script input to produce quality ligatures for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Western Punjabi (Lahnda), Maghribi, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino and Yiddish. ArabTeX characters are placed within a TeX/LaTeX document using the command \RL{ ... } or the environment \begin{RLtext} ... \end{RLtext}. ArabTeX is released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1+.{{Cite FTP |url=ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm |server=ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de |title=FTP link }}

Example

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\novocalize

\RL{al-salAm `alaykum}

Image:Bismillah.png

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{arabtex}

\begin{document}

\setarab

\fullvocalize

\transtrue

\arabtrue

\begin{RLtext}

bismi al-ll_ahi al-rra.hm_ani al-rra.hImi

العربية

\end{RLtext}

\end{document}

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

class="wikitable" ! Letter ! Transliteration ! Unicode name
align="center" \|ا	A	ARABIC LETTER ALEF
align="center" \|أ	a'	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
align="center" \|ب	b	ARABIC LETTER BEH
align="center" \|ت	t	ARABIC LETTER TEH
align="center" \|ث	_t	ARABIC LETTER THEH
align="center" \|ج	j / ^g	ARABIC LETTER JEEM
align="center" \|ح	.h	ARABIC LETTER HAH
align="center" \|خ	x / _h	ARABIC LETTER KHAH
align="center" \|د	d	ARABIC LETTER DAL
align="center" \|ذ	_d	ARABIC LETTER THAL
align="center" \|ر	r	ARABIC LETTER REH
align="center" \|ز	z	ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
align="center" \|س	s	ARABIC LETTER SEEN
align="center" \|ش	^s	ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
align="center" \|ص	.s	ARABIC LETTER SAD
align="center" \|ض	.d	ARABIC LETTER DAD
align="center" \|ط	.t	ARABIC LETTER TAH
align="center" \|ظ	.z	ARABIC LETTER ZAH
align="center" \|ع	`	ARABIC LETTER AIN
align="center" \|غ	.g	ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
align="center" \|ف	f	ARABIC LETTER FEH
align="center" \|ق	q	ARABIC LETTER QAF
align="center" \|ك	k	ARABIC LETTER KAF
align="center" \|ل	l	ARABIC LETTER LAM
align="center" \|م	m	ARABIC LETTER MEEM
align="center" \|ن	n	ARABIC LETTER NOON
align="center" \|و	w / U	ARABIC LETTER WAW
align="center" \|ه	h	ARABIC LETTER HEH
align="center" \|ي	y / I	ARABIC LETTER YEH
align="center" \|َ	a	ARABIC FATHA
align="center" \|ُ	u / o	ARABIC DAMMA
align="center" \|ِ	i / e	ARABIC KASRA
align="center" \|پ	p	ARABIC LETTER PEH
align="center" \|چ	^c	ARABIC LETTER TCHEH
align="center" \|ژ	^z	ARABIC LETTER JEH
align="center" \|گ	g	ARABIC LETTER GAF
align="center" \|ک	.k	ARABIC LETTER KEHEH
align="center" \|ی	y / I{{ref\|1\|*}}	ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
align="center" \|ۀ	H-i	ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH YEH
align="center" \|آ	'A	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
align="center" \|ة	T	ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
align="center" \|ء	'	\|ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ABOVE
align="center" \|ئ	'y	ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
align="center" \|ؤ	u'	ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
align="center" \|ً	aN	ARABIC FATHATAN
align="center" \|ّ	xx	ARABIC SHADDA
align="center" \|،	,	ARABIC COMMA
align="center" \|؛	;	ARABIC SEMICOLON
align="center" \|؟	?	ARABIC QUESTION MARK
align="center" \|٪	%	ARABIC PERCENT SIGN
align="center" \|		SPACE
align="center" \|.	.	FULL STOP
align="center" \|`‍`\|
\|ZERO WIDTH JOINER
align="center" \|‌	\hspace{0ex}	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

{{note|1|*}} Activated by \setfarsi

Note that one can also overcome the problem with containing dots using the \yahnodots command.

References

External links

[https://ctan.org/pkg/arabtex ArabTeX package page]
[http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/arabic/arabtex/doc/pdf/arabdoc.pdf Documentation (pdf)]
[ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm Download]

Category:Arabic-language computing

Category:Free TeX software