Questions tagged [arabic]

Questions about using TeX for typesetting documents in Arabic script.

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Arabic in latex

how to write Arabic words between English script in latex? I tried this code but it writes Arabic text in new line \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} %In the preamble section include the arabtex and utf8…
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Write Urdu with LuaTex

I figured out how to write with Arabic fonts \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{arabluatex} % for support of arabic fonts \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Amiri}[Script=Arabic, RawFeature={+anum}] \begin{document} My arabic test …
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How write a one-sentence arabic text in a latin document?

Is it possible to write one line with arabic letter in a latin-alphabet document? something like ... How are you... سۆمتینگ سۆمتینگ... now the latin is continued here ... How about mixing with equation and so on? Please notice that I use tons of…
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Emphasizing Arabic text characters

Regarding the "Arabic Language", words in such language are written such that the letters are connected, unlike English where words are written such that each letter is written separately. However, upon trying to emphasize any letter in Arabic text…
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Arabic alphabet (Urdu language) to LaTeX

I'm trying to write a sentence like The word must be either کا, کے or کی. into a LaTeX document. I've tried several ways of getting Arabic characters to LaTeX, and this: Arabic in latex was the only one I managed to get to work. However, when I…
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How to typeset (automatically) Qurʾānic verses?

I was reading the other day a book in Arabic, and I remarked how concisely the Qurʾānic verses were written, compare for example how the verse in that picture (it's between those brackets, 7th line) is written compared with in this standard Arabic…
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problem with arabxetex

please help me i can't resolve this problem the problem is character _t \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array,booktabs ,tabularx,multirow} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{arabxetex} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic ,…
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Replacing Western Arabic numerals with Arabic–Indic numerals in formulas

Is there a way to use non-Western Arabic digits in formulas of an English tex document? For example in output of $$\frac{100x}{25}$$ Arabic–Indic numerals/Eastern Arabic digits (٠ ١ ٢) will appear instead of Western Arabic (0, 1, 2) ones. I'm…
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LaTeX delete newlines

I have this LaTeX code and it inserts a newline before and after the Arabic text. I want it intext, how…
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Lualatex: Arabic in combination with italic - conflict

When I try to combine arabic font with italic style I get an error: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{arabluatex} % for support of arabic fonts \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Amiri}[Script=Arabic, RawFeature={+anum}] \begin{document} …
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Large Space Between Certain Letter Combinations in Arabic

When trying to produce an Arabic document, I'm having a problem with space between certain letter combinations being so big that it looks like a break between words. For…
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arabluatex - undefined control sequence

I have a simple test document \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec,luatextra} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Droid Arabic Naskh} \usepackage{arabluatex} \begin{document} hello \arb{EaAlam} \end{document} Which fails with: !…
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LuaLatex: Language 'Pashto' not available for font(fontspec) 'Amiri-Regular' with script 'Arabic'

As a followup of my question for Urdu I have now the question for the other languages like Pashto and Persian. I follow the sample and the doc and have the following…
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Error While Typesetting Quran Surah

I want to try to use quran package and following the example in the package documentation. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{quran} %%% for typesetting arabic…
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PdfLaTeX: Why is arabic output slightly different from arabic input?

Many questions about LaTeX in the past 29 years I could solve by searching in the internet -- many by great answers I found on your site. But this time, a mistake is haunting me since months, I have been searching for days, whatever I look up,…
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