Writing book in Arabic -- Only the Equations in English/Latin

Question

Question

I want to write a book in Arabic (I have an Arabic keyboard, so I don't need a converter). By Arabic book I mean literally Arabic:

• title,
• table of contents
• etc

all in Arabic.

The equations, however, I want to write them in English/Latin.

Related

http://ctan.triasinformatica.nl/language/arabic/arabi/arabi/texmf/doc/latex/arabi/user_guide.pdf

This link helped a lot but it was for Arabic texts in an English main document.

Is there arabic latex allow me to write mathematical paper with question arabic and latine math?

I already checked these two (and plenty other sites).

Answer 1

You can certainly do this using XeTeX and polyglossia. In the preamble of your document, you should do the following:

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{*Your Font Here*}

That sets you up to have the document in Arabic. On my version of TeXLive, it automatically switches equations to LTR english. So just type your equations as normal (example with hebrew)

ואז אנחנו רואים  
$e=mc^2$

becomes

So all you need to do is type as normal.