Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 17:10 schrieb Lomky: Are there other ways to convert it to utf8? GNU Emacs, the recode utility, using a backup of the original unchanged file... -- Greetings Pete "Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak." ---

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-19 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:10:37 -0400 schrieb Lomky: >> If really all text is ISO 8859-6, i.e., the 7-bit codes are Latin and AC-F2 >> are Arabic, then just convert the file's contents from ISO 8859-6 to UTF-8! > This seems to work, but keeps hitting snags where I get the error 'illegal > input s

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Lomky
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > If really all text is ISO 8859-6, i.e., the 7-bit codes are Latin and AC-F2 > are Arabic, then just convert the file's contents from ISO 8859-6 to UTF-8! This seems to work, but keeps hitting snags where I get the error 'illegal input se

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:55:55 -0400 schrieb Lomky: > Hello, > > I am attempting to make a Perl script that takes in Arabic text in code page > 6 (just glancing at it, I see an ascii range of C7 to ED) and converts it > out into Arabic script in a pdf document. > So my question is, how do I get x

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Aaron
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 15:55:55 Lomky wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to make a Perl script that takes in Arabic text in code page > 6 (just glancing at it, I see an ascii range of C7 to ED) and converts it > out into Arabic script in a pdf document. The best course would be to convert

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 14:55 schrieb Lomky: So my question is, how do I get xetex to understand I want the code page 6 input to become arabic output? If really all text is ISO 8859-6, i.e., the 7-bit codes are Latin and AC-F2 are Arabic, then just convert the file's contents from ISO 8859-6 t

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:55:55AM -0400, Lomky wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to make a Perl script that takes in Arabic text in code page 6 > (just glancing at it, I see an ascii range of C7 to ED) and converts it out > into Arabic script in a pdf document. I had the code working almost com