Hello all, I'm joining you guys regarding writing Arabic in LyX. I know Arabic & some LyX so I guess I can help.
So far I have not used Arabic in LyX. On 02/12/2013 10:09 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > I have no knowledge of Arabic, unfortunately, but following the > instructions on the wiki seems to work for me, including right-to-left > typing: Right-to-Left is not enough; Arabic is a complex language which requires connecting letters and glyph formation. Here's an example from Scribus which has been open for a long time & still not resolved (not sure why): http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1079 > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Arabic > It requires: > > 1. Setting the document class to Article(Arabic) Doesn't exist in my installation: LyX 2.0.5.1 (2012-11-03) Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (x86_64) > 2. Choosing "Arabic" from Document>>Settings>>Language, as Guy said > 3. Installing Arabic fonts for correct display in Lyx (the pdf would be > fine without them, them) > > If you do not have article[Arabic] in the Document>>Settings dropdown menu, > there may be something missing in your latex installation. The only relevant Arabic files I found are: /usr/share/lyx/kbd/arabic.kmap /usr/share/lyx/layouts/arab-article.layout /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/genmisc/arabic.tex /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bezos/arabicfront.sty /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arab.mld /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arab2.mld /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arabi.mld /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arabic.mld Maybe the 2nd is relecant? The > article(Arabic) option uses the arabart.cls document class, which, on my TL > 2012 linux system, lives in > > /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabtex/arabart.cls > Nothing of this sort! It appears to be part of the package: texlive-langextra which doesn't seem to be in Ubuntu Running "apt-cache search texlive" results in finding: texlive-lang-arabic - TeX Live: Arabic Installing it didn't change anything in LyX. Still no Article[Arabic]! I guess we need ArabTex: http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.htm In this I need help; I prefer to use Ubuntu's repositories unless it is not possible at all. > Try looking for a file called arabart.cls and see if you can find it in > your system. > Which platform are you on? Linux, Mac, Windows? Instructions for the > installation of missing packages vary depending on the platform. Not sure what parastoo is using as his system but mine is as stated above. > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Guy Rutenberg <guyrutenb...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Parastoo, >> >> I've no experience using LyX with Arabic or Farsi, so I only guess. Have >> you set the language correctly in Document->Settings->Language? At least >> for Hebrew it's necessary. >> >> Regards, >> >> Guy >> >> >> On 31 January 2013 00:05, Parastoo Mojabi <parastoo.moj...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Parastoo Mojabi < >>> parastoo.moj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> hi, >>>> >>>> hope you are doing great. >>>> >>>> I have difficulties making lyx in Farsi, I did as the internet saying, >>>> but article[arabic] is un available in my document class, I paste >>>> article-arabic.layout. every where but still doesnt work. >>>> now my document is left to right which i wanted to be right to left and >>>> the letters of arabic showing is wrong. >>>> >>>> please help me >>>> >>>> cheers -- Sincerely Yours, Merhebi, Bob TB
