Hi Sirs, First, although I could write arabic well with arabtex, I couldn't mix Arabic and English in the same document. Example: if I typed the letter "h" and view the pdf file, I get the Arabic letter "WAW". If I select this same letter "h" and pressed "F12" I got an RTL justification and the letter "h" change to Arabic "WAW" on screen. But view -> pdf gives this error:
LaTeX Error: File `unknown.def' not found. \endinput ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) My preference file conains these lines: ------------------------- # MISC SECTION ###################################### # \ui_file "/usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui" \kbmap true \kbmap_primary "/usr/share/lyx/kbd/null.kmap" \kbmap_secondary "/usr/share/lyx/kbd/arabic.kmap" # # SCREEN & FONTS SECTION ############################ # \popup_font_encoding "iso8859-1" \screen_font_roman "Times New Roman" \screen_font_roman_foundry "Xft" \screen_font_sans "Arial" \screen_font_sans_foundry "Xft" \screen_font_typewriter "Courier New" \screen_font_typewriter_foundry "Xft" \screen_font_encoding "iso8859-6" # # LANGUAGE SUPPORT SECTION ########################## # \rtl true \language_package "\usepackage{arabtex,iso88596} \setcode{iso8859-6}" \language_global_options "false" \language_command_begin "\begin{arabtext}" \language_command_end "\end{arabtext}" \language_auto_begin false \language_auto_end false ------------------------------------ My cua.bind file contains the line \bind "F12" "language arabic" --------------------------------------- Exporting the file to TeX gives this: %% 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{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[unknown,latin1]{inputenc} \makeatletter \usepackage{arabtex,iso88596} \setcode{iso8859-6} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{arabtext} \begin{arabtext} \inputencoding{unknown} h\end{arabtext} \end{arabtext} \end{document} ----------------------------------------- Second, I couldn't figure out whether I could use omega with lyx to type Arabic. Any commnets?! TIA -- Munzir Taha, Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS), Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia