Combining translation of Quran package line by line with its original Arabic text

Question

I want to place the Persian translation of quran package =\quransurahfa*[1] right below the original text=\quransurah*[1] of this code :

\documentclass[b5paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[left=1.8cm,right=1.8cm,top=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{arabxetex}
\usepackage[trans=fa]{quran}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont[Scale=0.7]{Yas}

\newfontfamily\Amiri[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}


\begin{document}
\begin{arab}
\noindent\Amiri\quransurah*[1]
\end{arab}
\noindent
\quransurahfa*[1]
\end{document}

which produces :

to appear like this:

There is no way (at least no easy way) to make linebreak of translation respect linebreak of the original text. — touhami, May 31 '19 at 15:09
@touhami If sacrifice this feature, how could just make the lines combinated, not exactly word by word or number by number? — Alireza Farhadi K., May 31 '19 at 17:37
you can try something like this. I'll give it a try, but not to night :-) sorry! — touhami, May 31 '19 at 17:43
Maybe something could be done with the expex package. But \quransurah is not expandable, so I think you'd need to enter your text directly for it to work. — David Purton, Jun 01 '19 at 07:05
Dear @DavidPurton, thanks for your comment. I'm not familiar with that package. If do so (manually add both original and translated texts), could you provide an example ? — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 03 '19 at 20:46
@DavidPurton: No actually, the only important thing is that the numbered sentences end at the same time. — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 04 '19 at 12:48
I can't understand Arabic or Persian. Can you point me to a source that shows me what should line up with what for (say) Surah 1 (e.g., where there are two Persian words for one Arabic word)? I'll have a working example for you shortly. — David Purton, Jun 04 '19 at 12:54
@DavidPurton: I can't show what you want, so please do it at you supposition. — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 04 '19 at 13:01

David Purton · Answer 1 · 2019-06-05T12:40:41.400

Here's an attempt at doing this with the expex package which is especially for linguistics.

Updated answer using `\quranayah`

You can use \quranayah[1][1] to insert each ayah. The problem is that the whole ayah is placed in a box which can't be broken across lines. So if you leave things justified you will get ugly overfull or underfull boxes everywhere. You could also try using \raggedleft but this doesn't look great either. My best option is to use a combination of \quranayah and manually broken lines as shown in the following MWE. I've adjusted a few other spacing settings to improve the output.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont{Yas}

\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}

\usepackage[trans=fa]{quran}
\usepackage{expex}
\makeatletter
\lingset{%
  everygl=\def\qt@no##1{ \hfill ##1},
  everygla=\arabicfont\large\rule{0pt}{5ex},
  everyglb=\footnotesize,
  glrightskip=0pt,
  glhangstyle=none,
  glspace=.5em plus 3em minus .15em
}
\makeatother

\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

\begingl
  \gla
    \quranayah*[1][1]
    \quranayah*[1][2]
    \quranayah*[1][3]
    \quranayah*[1][4]
    \quranayah*[1][5]
    {اهدِنَا الصِّراطَ} {المُستَقيمَ \hfill ﴿٦﴾}
    \quranayah*[1][7]
    //
  \glb
    \quranayahfa*[1][1]
    \quranayahfa*[1][2]
    \quranayahfa*[1][3]
    \quranayahfa*[1][4]
    \quranayahfa*[1][5]
    {ما را به راه راست} {هدايت فرما، \hfill (6)}
    \quranayahfa*[1][7]
    //
\endgl

\end{document}

Original answer

Sorry that I've probably lined up the words wrong as I don't understand Arabic or Persian.

One issue is that I'm having trouble changing the line spacing. It seems to be the same issue as here. I've used the same work-around as in that question.

There are lots of options for controlling these structures in expex. Have a look at §9 of the manual.

MWE

I used the Qur'an text and Farsi translation from qurantext-simple.def and qurantext-fa.translation.def respectively.

I gave up at ayah 5 because ayah 6 was too confusing for me to decide what should go under what :).

I was unable to get it working with the quran package for the text. I think this is because \quransurah is not expandable.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont{Yas}

\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}

\usepackage{expex}
\lingset{everygla=\arabicfont\large\rule{0pt}{25pt}, everyglb=\footnotesize,
  glwordalign=center}

\begin{document}

\begingl
  \gla بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ ۝١
    الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ العالَمينَ ۝٢
    الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ ۝٣
    مالِكِ يَومِ الدّينِ ۝٤
    إِيّاكَ نَعبُدُ وَإِيّاكَ نَستَعينُ ۝٥
    //
  \glb {به نام} خداوند رحمتگر مهربان (١)
    ستايش خدايى {را كه پروردگار} جهانيان، (٢)
    رحمتگر مهربان، (٣)
    {[و] خداوند} روز جزاست. (٤)
    {[بار الها] تنها تو را} مى‌پرستيم، {و تنها از تو يارى} مى‌جوييم. (٥)
    //
\endgl

\end{document}

Dear @DavidPurton , this solution produces very good-looking results, however interacting with the text to adjust exactly which word should sit in the right place is exhausting. To expose my standpoint, I will post it as an update to your answer so that i can ask you a question on it. — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 04 '19 at 20:40
You're right, the result isn't favorable. I will delete the answer since you have included the idea in your updated answer. Thank you again for your time. — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 05 '19 at 06:36
@AlirezaFarhadiK., I think you are going to struggle to get a completely automatic outcome without some manual intervention. Maybe you could type some an occasional ayah with manual breaks? — David Purton, Jun 05 '19 at 07:09
Dear Mr @DavidPurton ,It seems nice. Thank you, I will check it soon. — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 05 '19 at 14:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '19 at 09:56

Here is an answer. (i don't have Yas font so Amiri is used for both Arabe and Persian).

\documentclass[b5paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[left=1.8cm,right=1.8cm,top=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{arabxetex}
\usepackage[trans=fa]{quran}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont[Scale=.7]{Amiri}

\newfontfamily\Amiri[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}

\newif\ifwecanrepeat
\newsavebox\quranar
\newsavebox\quranfr
\newsavebox\qurantemp

\makeatletter 
\newcommand{\quransurahAF}[1][\qt@surah@default]{%
\setbox\quranar=\vbox{%
  \begin{arab}
    \noindent\Amiri\quransurah*[#1]
  \end{arab}}%
\setbox\quranfr=\vbox{%
  \noindent
  \quransurahfa*[#1]}%
\loop
  \ifvoid\quranar
    \wecanrepeatfalse\unvbox\quranfr
  \else\ifvoid\quranfr
    \wecanrepeatfalse\unvbox\quranar
  \else
    \wecanrepeattrue
    \setbox\qurantemp=\vsplit\quranar to \baselineskip \unvbox\qurantemp
    \setbox\qurantemp=\vsplit\quranfr to \baselineskip \unvbox\qurantemp
  \fi\fi
\ifwecanrepeat\repeat}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\quransurahAF[97]
\end{document}

Dear @touhami, usually the number of characters of the translated text exceed the original one, so they wont end at the same time (especially for long texts e.g. \quransurahAF[2] in the code) . Do you think is it possible to have the numbers placed below each other? — Alireza Farhadi K., Jun 01 '19 at 13:50

Combining translation of Quran package line by line with its original Arabic text

2 Answers2

Updated answer using \quranayah

MWE

Original answer

MWE

Updated answer using `\quranayah`