Is there any rules file to process an index written in Arabic language? XeLateX generated this .idx-file.
\indexentry{ مجموعة الاعداد الطبيعية|hyperpage}{٣}
\indexentry{القيمة المطلقة|hyperpage}{٦}
Many thanks.
1 Answer
There is not any rules for Arabic. However, there is xindy-persian package for Persian. Arabic being a subset of Persian, you can use the Persian language instead.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried xindy-persian package to process the index with this command :
texindy -M xindy-persian/variant1-utf8-test.xdy file_name.idxBut I have warnings : page numbers and correponding entries were ignored.WARNING: location-reference "٣" did not match any location-class! (ignored)How to solve this ?– CliffordCommented May 29, 2016 at 13:49 -
1I am not sure what package you use. But it is best to use western digits. By this, I mean you should have
\indexentry{ مجموعة الاعداد الطبيعية|hyperpage}{3}instead\indexentry{ مجموعة الاعداد الطبيعية|hyperpage}{٣}and then xindy also understands it. I think you use Buggy polyglossia and perhaps itsarabicnumberspackage. You need to disable this.– AdityaCommented May 29, 2016 at 15:03 -
And just use
Mapping=arabicdigitsas the option of your Arabic font; it converts western digits to corresponding Arabic ones on the fly.– AdityaCommented May 29, 2016 at 15:04 -
I used language files provided by the xindy-persian package and I alerady use the option ˋMapping=arabicdigits` for the Arabic font. How to make xindy undrestand arabic digits ?– CliffordCommented May 30, 2016 at 6:30
variant1-utf8-test.xdyprovided by xindy-persian package. To process index file I used this command:texindy -M xindy-persian/variant1-utf8-test.xdy file_name.idxBut I had warnings :page numbers and correponding entries were ignored. WARNING: location-reference "٣" did not match any location-class! (ignored)How to tell xindy about page numbers e.x "٣" which corresponds to page 3... In .tex file I usepolyglossiaandfonspecpackages the arabic font is loaded withMapping=arabicdigitsoption