Hi Mr. Lagally, I tried hard to get it working but it seems I missed something obvious. Please, help.
The steps go like this: I've Downloaded arabtex.zip and extracted it to get 3 folders (doc, fonts, tex). In the extracted tex folder there is latex/arabtex folder which contains 82 *.sty files besides some redundant files and folders (arab311.zip, old, back2108) I copied all of these except the redundant ones to my /usr/share/texmf/tex/arabtex I decided not to copy the fonts folder contents since my version of these fonts in Mandrake 9.1 seems to be newer and sometimes larger (how come?) Then as root I ran texhash. My previous settings of Dekel instructions to enable writing in Arabic are still in place so no need to change the preferences. I just Opened lyx and Edit -> Reconfigure Restarted LyX and typed some English and Arabic and View -> PDF and it doesn't work!! After some hours I discovered that I should use the Document class article, not article (Arabic) Ok this is good so no need more to copy this file separately to the layout folder. Wow, now I can use any Document class. Other than this, the same problem persitst. You can see my explanation here http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225 Now I typed a word in Arabic and made it center then File -> Export -> LaTeX to get this file: --- %% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[arabic,english]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \makeatletter \usepackage{arabtex,iso88596} \setcode{iso8859-6} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{arabtext} \begin{center}ظربê\end{center}\end{arabtext} \end{document} --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] munzir]$ texi2pdf arabic.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (/home/munzir/arabic.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, basque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class ... (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/asmo449.sty scanner for code ASMO 449 (ISO 9036) installed.) scanner for code ASMO 708 (ISO 8859-6) installed.) input encoding set to ASMO 449 (ISO 9036) conventions input encoding set to ASMO 708 (ISO 8859-6) conventions LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s): [arabic,english]. (./arabic.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/uxnsh.fd) ! LaTeX Error: Arabic mode: Environment center undefined. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.11 \begin{center} ^^d9^^d1^^c8^^ea\end{center}\end{arabtext} ? . / . / . / ## ! LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 10 ended by \end{document}. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.13 \end{document} ? [1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] (./arabic.aux) ... *********** ) (\end occurred inside a group at level 2) </usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/jkn appen/ec/ecrm1000.600pk> </var/lib/texmf/pk/ljfour/arabtex/xnsh14.600pk> Output written on arabic.pdf (1 page, 8126 bytes). Transcript written on arabic.log. /usr//bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting. /usr//bin/texi2dvi: see arabic.log for errors. --- The file is generated but with some garbage the end. On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:43 am, Klaus Lagally wrote: > scripsit Munzir Taha: > > Hi Lagally, > > I am really happy for this. Your response is so fast. I expected you to > > take at least 3 months ;) Again many thank you's > > You are welcome. I was lucky to find a solution quickly. -- First law of thermodynamics: "You can't get any more energy out of a system than you put into it." __/ __/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\ _/ _/ \ / _\ unzir _/ aha Telecommunications Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS. New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
