Questions tagged [arabic]
Questions about using TeX for typesetting documents in Arabic script.
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writing an arabic math exam with Latex
I want to write my exam with latex. I tried to convert my english exam as follows:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\...
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True type font with pdftex
I want to use true type font (ttf) with pdftex. This has been discussed for latin fonts and it seems that's the problem is solved. My problem is with arabic font, for example Amiri. I learned that i ...
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Pashto Script in Latex
I would like to know, how to include Pastho-Script in my document.
A similar question was asked here before, but only concering the use of one single charakter in the document, while I would like to ...
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some arabic words in beamer, babel xelatex problem!
How to insert some arabic words in a beamer presentation using the babel package and xelatex?
I have tried the following code but the arab words are not displayed!
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{...
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How to write Arabic poetry on LyX?
In Arabi package documentation, it possible to write Arabic poetry on LaTeX using that package. But, I want to write Arabic poetry using LyX, that uses LaTeX as its backend and XeTeX for formatting ...
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Arabic text go under baseline when vocalisation diacritics (tashkil) is used
When an Arabic text is vocalized (using the diacritics called tashkil), the whole line sometimes goes below the expected baseline.
Here is an example with the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,...
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Why is my Arabic writing broken?
Previously, I tested LyX for writing in Arabic with the Arabic (Arabi) language setting. LyX could render Arabic writing properly at that time without punctuation or harakat. But, if I add harakat or ...
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How to force a LateX environment to start on a new page
How can I use \breakbox, in this example, to force the example environment defined below to continue on a new page?
Here is an example to clarify:
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{test}
\begin{...
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Problem while loading Arabic script using pdflatex on LyX
When I do an attempt to exporting to PDF a document with Arabic text on LyX using pdfTeX engine, appear an error like this.
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ae_almohanad_bold.pfb): cannot open Type 1 ...
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Table with arabic text corrupted when trying to colour cells
I have got this code to create an Arabic table:
\documentclass[18pt]{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[arabic, provide=*, bidi=basic, layout=counters.tabular]{...
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Change language in one page to arabic when using MasterDoctoralThesis
In the masters-doctoral-thesis template, the language is chosen when the document class is called in the main and is applied to the whole thesis. However, I would like to mention some proverbs in ...
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babel not rendering Arabic font correctly
I have an Arabic font (Traditional Arabic), but babel is not rendering it correctly, it leaves gaps between the letters (they should be connected):
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage{...
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Number direction in Arabic using (plain) Luatex
Following the question here, I managed to write in Arabic using Luatex (plain/Optex), but all numbers are also written from the right to the left (and in Western numbers, not Arabic). It seems that ...
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Context non equal space after itemize label in RTL document
Why in this example spaces after ) of inline itemize environment are not equal, and how to fix this?
\setuppapersize[A4]
\mainlanguage[arabic]
\setupdirections[bidi=global,method=one]
\setupalign[r2l] ...
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i need to Remove space between section number and title and make the number section in the right side
\documentclass[12pt,oneside, tikz, ignorerest=false]{book} \usepackage[paperwidth=210mm,paperheight=297mm,hmargin=0.5cm,top=10mm,bottom=23mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Use two languages in leaflet class
I am using the following code to write a leaflet with two languages:
\documentclass[10pt,foldmark,notumble]{leaflet}
\renewcommand*\foldmarkrule{.3mm}
\renewcommand*\foldmarklength{5mm}
% Set ...
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Writing greek and arabic letters in memoir
I'm trying to write a book (documentclass "memoir") and I would like each chapter to begin alternatively with a greek or arabic letter.
I have no problem with greek thanks to the package &...
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\textfrench causing no chapter numbers in theorem numbering
I am dealing with a bilingual document using polyglossia: Arabic (main) and French (secondary, mostly math only).
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\setmainlanguage[locale=algeria]{...
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How to implement SWT, SAW, AS etc
I was just wondering if there are any way to implement the arabic words of (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) (SAW), (AS), (RA) etc.. using arabtex?
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How to add Arabic in-line with English sentence in XeLaTeX?
I'm currently working on a book and I need to add Arabic words in the document within an English sentence. Example: "The word (arabic word) is the definition of....". I tried using LR{} and {...
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Applying \textfrench to item numbering inside lists written in Arabic
CONTEXT | Bilingual document, Polyglossia in the preamble: Arabic=main, French=secondary (mostly for math). Used \textfrench to render page numbering and theorem numbering with the same font used in ...
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why mpchess generated board is out of the page here is the simplest code possible
\documentclass[a4paper, twoside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont{amiri}
\usepackage{...
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Dotted circle (U+25CC) with Arabic diacritics uncentered in XeLaTeX
I am trying to typeset the Arabic diacritics together with the dotted circle and for some reason, the diacritic is always un-centered.
I even tried stackengine to overlap them, but they are still off.
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Which is better for arabic Babel or Polyglossia [closed]
I need to know for general purpose articles or books.
Which one plays best with figures, diagrams, multicolumns, TOC, enumitem..etc.
and most appreciated if problems with skak, and chessboard are less ...
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The current roman font does not contain the Arabic (polyglossia)
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.1]{Traditional Arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\begin{document}
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I'm using the newspaper package, How do I make the title of my newspaper title in Uyghur or Farsi or Arabic
I have included Arabic in the package. but I can't display the headline of the newspaper.
\documentclass{article}
%In the preamble section include the arabtex and utf8 packages
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Parallel-Paging with paracol totally fail with polyglossia
I have an french-arabic belangual document, where the french version should be appear at left odd pages when arabic version sould appear at right even pages like as described here.
But, I discover the ...
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Unable to Disable `colr` Feature With HarfBuzz Renderer From the `fontspec` Package
I noticed that if you use the Renderer = HarfBuzz fontspec option, the colr OpenType feature automatically gets disabled. If you use the default renderer, the feature does not get enabled but you can ...
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Transliteration asked of a Arabic word for use with arabtex / LaTeX
Could someone please help me: I need to include the official name of Egypt in Arabic characters in a LaTeX document.
The transcription I find: Jumhūriyat Miṣr al-`Arabīyah cannot be used in arabtex. I ...
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I need help with customizing my List of Contents
Lads,
I want to make a Table of Contents as show in. I've been using the default option, but it is not what I'm looking for.
this is what I want:
I. PART ONE
I. Chapter one
1. subsection A
2. ...
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Citing an ancient arabic manuscript and its translation
\begin{filecontents}[force]{test.bib}
@BOOK{Bag-26,
author = {{{\foreignlanguage{arabic}{محمد بن الحسن بن الكريم الكاتب البغدادي}} [al-Baghdadi, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Karīm]}},
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Mixed Content Latin and Arabic script
I am working on a project that requires me to cite Instagram posts with their post content. The specific ones that I am working with are often mixed content in English and Farsi. Does anyone have an ...
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Arabicfont and URL link selection
I have some links with Arabic characters which are not properly displayed in my current font. Therefore I select Arabic language before using the link. The MWE looks like
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,...
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English and Arabic text together doesn't always work in babel
I am using babel to typeset a book with English as the main language and Arabic as the second language. I want to have the title ant the author written in both English and Arabic. However, the author ...
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change arabic font in babel latex + pdfLatex
how I make "\babelfont" works with PdfLatex compiler.
I know it works with xeLatex compiler.
or any method that I can change arabic font using babel and with PdfLaTex compiler.
I appreciate ...
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Coloring Arab Al-Quran
How can I change the color of Arab word endings without losing the connections? It's just ugly and loses readability. I'm using Texmaker and MiKTeX
Font KFGQPC HAFS Uthmanic Script
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How can I put an Arabic translation for each section in the Table of Contents
I am typesetting the Quran in LaTeX with English on the left side and Arabic on the right side. I use XeLaTeX and arabxetex to do this. I use the tocloft package to customize the Table of Contents and ...
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How can I add more text after the chapter name in a book
I am trying to typeset the Quran in LaTeX using XeLaTeX and arabxetex. For chapter pages, I want the English text on the left, and the Arabic text on the right. The result should be something like ...
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center arabic words or images with tikz
I want to center the Arabic content (words and images) in the page with tikz. The content is not placed in the center as expected. Any advice?
% !TEX TS-program=lualatex
\documentclass[a5paper,...
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How to use Arabtex (or write a few Arabic text example) inside ACM template?
Using overleaf: after just inserting arabtex package the document start giving me random errors.
\documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart}
\usepackage{arabtex}
--> you can find acm ...
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Problem with page numbering (double page numbering)
In my thesis only this page has two number i want only bottom roman number like other front pages, but i don't know why the arabic number 8 is appeared in upper right , no any other pages in the ...
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Comma after english word
I am using the Arabic language in writing my latex file, I have a problem in in the comma which appear in there reverse place for the English words, some times I keep some terms in English for the ...
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ArabLuaTeX brackets and empty line
Here's a strange behaviour when using square brackets, only in the {arab} environment when an empty line precedes the brackets.
This is how the problem output looks
It happens only with square ...
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Arabic characters in URL using URLRAW
I am citing a website which has arabic characters in its URL. To avoid having to many %%% in my citations, I came across adding the field urlraw to the bib items. But what I get in the footnotes and ...
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Trouble inserting Arabic text
So I wish to include a few Arabic characters in my text which is primarily composed of Latin characters. Apparently this can be done using the package arabtex.
However, it does not want to compile ...
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Line break after theorem head
I would like to have a line break after "Theorem Head", like this:
How can I do that for the Arabic language and amsart document class?
I tried to add the following command but with no luck....
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Add fbox to the numbering of each section, subsection, and subsubsection in the Arabic language
I would like to add fbox to the numbering of each section, subsection, and subsubsection to make it look like the following but for
Arabic language \usepackage{polyglossia}
When I add the following ...
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frame does not appear in xelatex
I'm new in Xelatex, I'm trying to write a text with arabic font so I used polyglossia package and everything is okay but when I worked with titlesec the frame is not appearing if I used arbic or ...
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Babel & Bilingual fonts
I am using Babel package to support Arabic and English in one document. But I am not able to identify a multilingual font that supports Bold typeface. The code below works fine, but lacks the bold ...
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Preface and Table of Contents Issue
I am in the final stage of writing my dissertation and it seems like there are some issues with how my preface's contents are being displayed on the table of content. The dedication page should start ...
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