John,
Your suggestion worked very well. Arabic words and letters now
read from right to left. However, the letters all appear as separate
letters rather than connected as they should be. Is there any way to
correct that?
Nicholas
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, John Was wrote:
I'm not an Arabist but have occasionally had to typeset articles in plain
XeTex using Arabic, and all I have in my file header is:
\TeXXeTstate=1 % this turns e-TeX's bidi functionality on
\def\intextarab#1{{\arabic {\beginR #1\endR}}}
I define \arabic as a call to my Arabic font (the definition of \arabic
changes according to whether I'm in main text, footnote text, or extract
text). To achieve Arabic I just give \intextarab{ARABIC TEXT HERE}. That
works fine for bits of Arabic embedded in English (or other left-to-right)
text in the same paragraph. For separate Arabic paragraphs you really just
need
\beginR
and at the end
\endR
There are no doubt slicker ways of doing things, but that gave me good output
first time round so I stuck with it!
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "heer" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <[email protected]>
Sent: 21 December 2012 21:52
Subject: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX
Is there a bidi.sty file for plain XeTeX or only for XeLateX? I'd like to
be able to use Arabic script in plain XeTeX.
Nicholas
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