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ArabXeTeX provides a convenient ArabTeX-like user-interface for typesetting languages using the Arabic script in XeLaTeX, with flexible access to font features.

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Reledmac for Arabic critical edition: problems with Left-to-right apparatus and \Xgroupbyline

I am typesetting a critical edition with reledmac of an Arabic text. To typeset the Arabic, I use ArabXeTex. I would like to have the entries in the apparatus grouped by line (\Xgroupbyline) and the ...
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Reledmac XeLaTeX Arabic: Line wrapping does not work in Critical footnotes

I ran into an issue of Reledmac with XeLaTeX. The line wrapping in critical footnotes is not working as expected, instead, the line extends and bleeds to the margins. I am Giving the following MWE for ...
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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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How to color particular portion of an Arabic text with arabxetex

MWE: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[voc]{arabxetex} \setmainfont{AlQalamQuranMajeedWeb} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.1]{AlQalamQuranMajeedWeb} \...
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How to fix position of Arabic fatah over seen?

MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[voc]{arabxetex} \setmainfont{Amiri} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.1]{Amiri} \newcommand{\clrfatha}[3][0pt]...
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Problem with reledmac and lemma substitution, error '\iflemmacommand@0' undefined

I'm writing a critical edition of an Arabic text with reledmac ed arabxetex. I'm using the command \lemma{} to change the lemma passed to the critical note. Basically, the compilation produces the ...
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\XeTeXinterchartoks fails when applied to non-ASCII characters

In the following code \XeTeXinterchartoks fails when applied to non-ASCII characters. Any help? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{xcolor} % \usepackage{...
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Can't write in Arabic in Latex using "arabluatex" package

I found this previous post and followed the first answer. I made this script: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[novoc]{arabluatex} \linespread{1.25} \begin{document} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[...
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Why `arabxetex` does not apply the arabicfont for including macros?

Why arabxetex does not use the arabicfont for macros included in like \marginpar and \footnote, it seems so weird? I think as the text appeared in the arab environment, all the following macros in it ...
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How to typesetting traditional Arabic texts

I was researching how to typeset traditional Arabic texts in LaTeX and stumbled on this research article published on tug.org from back in 2006 (link). Does there exist a more modern/better approach, ...
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Coloring Arab vowels/marks without losing connection

In Arabic script you add short vowels/diacritics (marks) above/below the consonants. How do yo go about coloring them (on a case by case basis) without losing connection/breaking the letters/vowels in ...
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Strange XOR behaviour with polyglossia and arabxetex [memoir]

I'm getting a strange behaviour when loading polyglossia and arabxetex together, and enabling \setotherlanguages{arabic}. MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{memoir} \usepackage{xcolor} \...
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Remove particular characters from some string

Consider this code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{arabxetex} \usepackage{newunicodechar} \begin{document} \begin{arab} إِبرٰهۦمَِ \end{arab} \end{document} Output: The arabic ...
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Arabxetex plus missing glyph

The default font for arabxetex is Amiri. Here I want to use different font which is Markazi Text together with quran package. \documentclass[b5paper,11pt]{memoir} \usepackage[left=1.8cm,right=1.8cm,...
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Question about compilation in Arabic tex

I found this tex files but it gives me many errors (in \fancyhfoffset,\mainmatter,..): i compile with xelatex and texlive 2017 how to do ? thank you \documentclass{book} \usepackage[dvips]{...
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Quran package with Hussaini Nastaleeq font

It's recommended (from the documentation) to use Amiri or Scheherazade font for the quran package, but I want to try different font in this case Hussaini Nastaleeq. Consider this code. \documentclass[...
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Put a picture between two text (Arab)

How to prut an image between these two text \documentclass[12pt]{arabbook} \usepackage{color} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english, arabic]{babel} \usepackage[LAE]{fontenc} \usepackage{...
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Omitting the wasla sign

\documentclass[border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage[fullvoc]{arabxetex} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade-Regular.ttf} \begin{document} \begin{arab} be-al-ll-_ahi \end{...
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Assimilated alif (arabxetex)

I am trying to achieve: However, \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[fullvoc]{arabxetex} \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade-Regular.ttf} \begin{document} \begin{arab} ...
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Modify the Arabic font size in Latex document [closed]

I need a help to modify the Arabic font size in this document: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside,openany]{book} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{fourier} %...
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Problems with numeral in Arabtext using polyglossia

I have this files: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{extbook} %--------------------------------------------- \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \setsansfont{Arial} \setmonofont{Courier ...
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Change font in a single paragraph Arabxetex

I'm wondering how to change the font in juste a single paragraph inside \begin{arab} environnement. My default font is setted like so \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Scheherazade}, i also use polyglossia ...
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Titlesec and Arabxetex

Is there a conflict between arabxetex and titlesec? In the MWE below, it seems that titlesec is ignored (though it does not give any error or warning). \documentclass[10pt]{book} \usepackage{...
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Error related to bidi or arabxetex: Command \XeTeX already defined

I get a non-fatal error when I run the following MWE: %!TEX TS-program = xelatex %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper} \usepackage{...
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tufte-book and arabic text (bidi problem?)

I am typesetting a tufte-book document with XeLaTeX that has both English and Arabic text. The Tufte-style title pages consistently break, whether I use the package arabxetext or polyglossia. I ...
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Replacing western Arabic digits with Indic digits (eastern Arabic digits) in formulas

I would like that digits in math formulae appear like ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ rather 0123456789. Hence I would like that for example $2$ appears like ۲ Note: A related question has been asked here: Replacing ...
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Tanwin does not appear in the output

Normally the output should be appear like But actually it appears like \documentclass{article} \usepackage{arabxetex, arabtex} \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman} \newfontinstance\...
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Strange effect of arabxetex/bidi on figure counter

I have a strange bug using XeLaTeX: I include caption.sty and use a command like \renewcommand\thefigure{\Alph{figure}} to make an adjustment to the figure counter. If then I include arabxetex.sty, ...
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3-digit Quranic verse numbers in ArabXeTeX and Scheherazade

I'm having problems typesetting Quranic verses numbers using ArabXeTeX. 1 or 2-digit numbers get properly displayed when using the dedicated macro ([[###]]) but 3-digit numbers aren't. It used to work ...
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Email addresses & Abstract missing when using the elsarticle class

I am trying to format my paper using Latex with the class elsarticle for an Elsevier journal. I am using TeXnicCenter along with Miktex. It's working perfectly when the content is all in English (...
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arabxetex: madda vocalization

I need to produce a madda sign without any preceding fatha, just the madda. I can't understand why the MWE below stubbornly produces a vowel above the mim, as in the following image. %!TEX TS-program ...
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how can I include arabxetex to texlive package

I would like to install arabxetex package. I have already installed arabtex with command line sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-arabic. However I can't find a similar command for "arabxetex". Is there ...
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arabxetex: how to properly write wasla sign?

How can I create "wasla" signs using arabxetex? Writing qad-i in.sarafa (an example from the arabtex documentation) produces: In arabtex, it produces: How can I get the same effect in arabxetex?
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arabxetex: how to write 'ayn with a long vowel fatha (dagger alif)

With full vocalization turned on: a-l_`alamiyna produces: ; note that it messes up the sukun symbol on the lam a-l`aAlamiyna produces: a-l'aalamiyna produces a version that I think can be read ...
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Adding Arabic text to an English document

I'm trying to include Arabic text in an English document (I'm a new latex user), but I can't seem to get any Arabic text to render at all, using xelatex or any kind of tex. I'm using texshop 3.51 on a ...
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Adding Arabic text to English document [duplicate]

I'm trying to include Arabic text in an English document (I'm a new latex user), but I can't seem to get any Arabic text to render at all, using xelatex or any kind of tex. I'm using texshop 3.51 on a ...
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arabxetex and footnote

I've had some problems with ^s when using arabxetex in footnotes. Transliteration and conversion to Arabic script work fine in the main text, but in footnotes they do not. All other letters seem to ...
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