Editing ArabTeX

{{Short description|Free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets}}
[[Image:ArabTeX logo.svg|250px|thumb|The ArabTeX logo]]

'''ArabTeX''' is a free software package providing support for the [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] and [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] [[alphabet]]s to [[TeX]] and [[LaTeX]]. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take [[Romanization|romanized]] [[ASCII]] or native script input to produce quality ligatures for [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[Pashto language|Pashto]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Western Punjabi (Lahnda)]], [[Maghreb|Maghribi]], [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]], [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Judeo-Arabic language|Judeo-Arabic]], [[Ladino language|Ladino]] and [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]. ArabTeX characters are placed within a TeX/LaTeX document using the command <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\RL{ ... }</syntaxhighlight> or the environment <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\begin{RLtext} ... \end{RLtext}</syntaxhighlight>. ArabTeX is released under the  [[LaTeX Project Public License]] v1+.<ref>{{Cite FTP |url=ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm |server=ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de |title=FTP link }}</ref>

==Example==
[[Image:Arabtex as-salam alaikum.png|170px]]
<syntaxhighlight lang="latex">
\novocalize
\RL{al-salAm `alaykum}
</syntaxhighlight>
[[Image:Bismillah.png]]
<syntaxhighlight lang="latex">
 \documentclass[12pt]{article}
 \usepackage{arabtex}
 \begin{document}
 \setarab
 \fullvocalize
 \transtrue
 \arabtrue
 \begin{RLtext}
 bismi al-ll_ahi al-rra.hm_ani al-rra.hImi
العربية
 \end{RLtext}
 \end{document}
</syntaxhighlight>

==Common commands==
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\setarab</syntaxhighlight> (set language specific rendering)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\setfarsi</syntaxhighlight> (set language specific rendering)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\setuighur</syntaxhighlight> (set language specific rendering)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\set</syntaxhighlight>... (more language conventions, see the documentation)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\novocalize</syntaxhighlight> (individual vowel marks can be displayed using "a, "i, "u) 
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\vocalize</syntaxhighlight> (individual vowel marks can be cancelled using "a, "i, "u)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\fullvocalize</syntaxhighlight> (individual vowel marks can be cancelled using "a, "i, "u)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\setcode{ }</syntaxhighlight> (switch input encodings)
* <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\settrans{ }</syntaxhighlight> (switch transliteration conventions)

==Character table==

{| class="wikitable"
! Letter
! Transliteration 
! Unicode name
|- align="center"
|<big>ا</big>||A||ARABIC LETTER ALEF
|- align="center"
|<big>أ</big>||a'||ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
|- align="center"
|<big>ب</big>||b||ARABIC LETTER BEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ت</big>||t||ARABIC LETTER TEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ث</big>||_t||ARABIC LETTER THEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ج</big>||j / ^g||ARABIC LETTER JEEM
|- align="center"
|<big>ح</big>||.h||ARABIC LETTER HAH
|- align="center"
|<big>خ</big>||x / _h||ARABIC LETTER KHAH
|- align="center"
|<big>د</big>||d||ARABIC LETTER DAL
|- align="center"
|<big>ذ</big>||_d||ARABIC LETTER THAL
|- align="center"
|<big>ر</big>||r||ARABIC LETTER REH
|- align="center"
|<big>ز</big>||z||ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
|- align="center"
|<big>س</big>||s||ARABIC LETTER SEEN
|- align="center"
|<big>ش</big>||^s||ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
|- align="center"
|<big>ص</big>||.s||ARABIC LETTER SAD
|- align="center"
|<big>ض</big>||.d||ARABIC LETTER DAD
|- align="center"
|<big>ط</big>||.t||ARABIC LETTER TAH
|- align="center"
|<big>ظ</big>||.z||ARABIC LETTER ZAH
|- align="center"
|<big>ع</big>||`||ARABIC LETTER AIN
|- align="center"
|<big>غ</big>||.g||ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
|- align="center"
|<big>ف</big>||f||ARABIC LETTER FEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ق</big>||q||ARABIC LETTER QAF
|- align="center"
|<big>ك</big>||k||ARABIC LETTER KAF
|- align="center"
|<big>ل</big>||l||ARABIC LETTER LAM
|- align="center"
|<big>م</big>||m||ARABIC LETTER MEEM
|- align="center"
|<big>ن</big>||n||ARABIC LETTER NOON
|- align="center"
|<big>و</big>||w / U||ARABIC LETTER WAW
|- align="center"
|<big>ه</big>||h||ARABIC LETTER HEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ي</big>||y / I||ARABIC LETTER YEH
|- align="center"
|<big>َ</big>||a||ARABIC FATHA
|- align="center"
|<big>ُ</big>||u / o||ARABIC DAMMA
|- align="center"
|<big>ِ</big>||i / e||ARABIC KASRA
|- align="center"
|<big>پ</big>||p||ARABIC LETTER PEH
|- align="center"
|<big>چ</big>||^c||ARABIC LETTER TCHEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ژ</big>||^z||ARABIC LETTER JEH
|- align="center"
|<big>گ</big>||g||ARABIC LETTER GAF
|- align="center"
|<big>ک</big>||.k||ARABIC LETTER KEHEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ی</big>||y / I{{ref|1|*}}||ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
|- align="center"
|<big>ۀ</big>||H-i||ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH YEH 
|- align="center"
|<big>آ</big>||'A||ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
|- align="center"
|<big>ة</big>||T||ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
|- align="center"
|<big>ء</big>||'|||ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ABOVE
|- align="center"
|<big>ئ</big>||'y||ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
|- align="center"
|<big>ؤ</big>||u'||ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
|- align="center"
|<big>ً</big>||aN||ARABIC FATHATAN
|- align="center"
|<big>ّ</big>||''xx''||ARABIC SHADDA
|- align="center"
|<big>،</big>||,||ARABIC COMMA
|- align="center"
|<big>؛</big>||;||ARABIC SEMICOLON
|- align="center"
|<big>؟</big>||?||ARABIC QUESTION MARK
|- align="center"
|<big>٪</big>||%||ARABIC PERCENT SIGN
|- align="center"
|<big><code> </code></big>|| || SPACE
|- align="center"
|<big>.</big>||.||FULL STOP
|- align="center"
|<big><code>&zwj;</code></big>||-||ZERO WIDTH JOINER
|- align="center"
|<big>‌</big>||\hspace{0ex}|| ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
<!--|<big>«</big>|| || LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
|- align="center"
|<big>&#;</big>||187;</big>|| || RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK -->
|}
{|
|-
|{{note|1|*}} Activated by <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\setfarsi</syntaxhighlight>
|}
Note that one can also overcome the problem with <yah> containing dots using the <syntaxhighlight lang="latex" inline>\yahnodots</syntaxhighlight> command.

==See also==
*[[XePersian]]
*[[FarsiTeX]]
*[[XeTeX]]
*[[ArabLuaTex]]
* [[List of TeX extensions]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://ctan.org/pkg/arabtex ArabTeX package page]
*[http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/arabic/arabtex/doc/pdf/arabdoc.pdf Documentation (pdf)]
*[ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm Download]

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