[XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

2024-06-11 Thread Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX
Hello! In my current project I use XeLaTeX to typeset PDF files from texts in different languages held in a separate database. (This is done with a generator that is language-unaware, generating lines like \long\def\msgtext{عطل في التهيئة البنيوماتية GS} Into a .inc file and a manually written, l

Re: [XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

2024-06-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hello, I have not used Arabic but Urdu which uses a modified Arabic script. I have a book written in Czech with just small parts in Hindi and Urdu and I do it in XeLaTeX with the polyglossia package. A very small sample of the book is here: http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/bharat.php The page contains

Re: [XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

2024-06-11 Thread Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX
Hello Zdeněk, thank you for your hints. What a wonderful book! I’ll take the TeX code of your tools package as a start and experiment with it. Maybe I will need to adopt to mark the latin characters and not rely on automatic switching between latin LtoR and Arabic RtoL. Hartmut Von: Zdenek Wag

Re: [XeTeX] Typesetting arabic and european mix encoded in utf8

2024-06-11 Thread Jens Bakker
Hello Hartmut Niemann, may be that the XeLaTex-package polyglossia could serve your purposes better much better. You could use many languages in one document, also Arabic and other RTL text. Best wishes and best regards, Jens Bakker > Am 11.06.2024 um 12:06 schrieb Niemann, Hartmut via XeTeX