Dear Anas and Vafa,
I've now tried both of your methods and they seem to work equally
well. However, neither one adds kashidah to underfull hboxes
automatically. Is there any way to do that? That is something that Klaus
Lagally's verses.sty does in ArabTeX. But perhaps that is because ArabTeX
uses its own special font.
Sincerely,
Nicholas
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
What is the purpose of using \beginR ... \endR in your verse macro. Instead
using verse.sty, I would suggest using bidipoem.sty
On Nov 12, 2012, at 08:26 PM, Anas Ghrab <[email protected]> wrote:
For the verses I put this small code in the header :
\newdimen\MesraLength % each verse has two mesra'
\MesraLength=.45\hsize % one may change this to other values
\newcommand{\vers}[2]{\begin{centering}
\beginR
\hbox to \MesraLength{#1}
\hskip 1.5cm
%\hfill
\hbox to \MesraLength{#2}
\endR
\vskip 0pt\end{centering}
}
By the way, I used ArabXeTeX for writing my PhD (Télécharger la totalité de
la thèse) which contains an important arabic part, but the best way I found
now to use arabic is Polyglossia + eledmac. As texts I'm working with now are
100% in arabic, the only remaining problem is the bibliography : Biblatex is
still without an arabic localization...
Even for a latin-based letters text, I think one doesn't need any
transcription-code anymore as one can write directly in UTF-8. The
translitteration codes of ArabTeX et ArabXeTeX were necessary when the use of
latin encoding was the only way to write translitteration letters.
Yours,
---
Anas Ghrab
Le Nov 12, 2012 à 1:20 AM, heer a écrit :
Now that the subject of ArabXeTeX has come up, I have a question myself. Is
there any way of using the verses.sty macro from Lagally's ArabTeX in
ArabXeTeX? It doesn't seem to be possible to use both the ArabTeX and
ArabXeTeX packages in the same file. There are very few Arabic or Persian
texts that do not contain any verses at all, so it would be nice to be able
to use ArabTeX's verses.sty when using ArabXeTeX.
Nicholas Heer
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