I was completely busy today. Well, I tried to follow the emails related to this
subject. Abdel mentioned the main points:
For Arabic we have planned to have both ArabTeX and ARABI,
but for Farsi we (at least me as a Farsi User) have decided to use only ARABI.
Currently it is possible to write Arabi and Farsi documents mixed with
English (Latin) in LyX. As you know Arabic and Hebrew are conflicting in terms
of LaTeX. My patchs have not changed the way Arabic is supported inside LyX.
ArabTeX has better support for shaping and more ligatures but is very bad in
terms of fonts. But maybe in the future the fonts support would be improved in
ArabTeX as it is the case with ArabXeTeX. Moreover ArabTeX is not based on
BABEL in contrast to ARABI. (Therefore "\selectlanguage{}" can not be used with
ArabTeX but some other commands that are explained in the WIKI are used which
was/is possible to do that with LyX.)
"\R{}" command is defined in ArabTeX. The "\textAR{}" and "\textFR{}" is
defined in ARABI when writing a short phrase of ARABIC or FARSI inside a
paragraph with some other main language. Currently for Arabi CP1256 and Unicode
is supported. But for Farsi only Unicode and maybe in the future
extended-CP1256 and ISIRI-3342 (I am not sure about this one though).
I will shortly prepare a document on using Farsi with LyX. It needs to enter
three to four lines of latex code inside the LaTeX preamble (for the
inputencoding, fontencoding, and selecting the main language of the document
manually), and using the Unicode as the main encoding of the document instead
of using the default encoding for each language.
Have I missed anything to answer or to explain about? Please let me know.
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can ArabTeX run on Windows, or does that not work?
ArabTeX can in general be run on Windows but to be able to typeset Arabic with
LyX on Windows, I
also need the arabi-package.
regards Uwe
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