ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets to TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take romanized ASCII or native script input to produce quality ligatures for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Maghribi, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino and Yiddish. ArabTeX characters are placed within a LaTeX document using the < … > delimiters. The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby TEX, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ... In linguistics, romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ... There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... Arabic (العربية al-arabiyyah, or less formally arabi) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Persian (فارسی / پارسی), (local name in Persia/Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan: ‘Fârsi’), ‘Pârsi’ (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, western Pakistan, Bahrain, and elsewhere. ... Urdu (اردو), a language rising out of the neccesity of Muslim Army camps in South Asia to communicate with each other in the 1500s. ... Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ... Sindhi (سنڌي، سندھی, सिन्धी) is the language of the Sindh region of South Asia, which is now a province of Pakistan. ... (see also North Africa, Tamazgha, Arab Maghreb Union, Mashreq) The Maghreb (المغرب العربي ; sometimes also rendered Moghreb), meaning western in Arabic, is the region of the continent of Africa north of the Sahara desert and west of the Nile - specifically, the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya- and to a much... Uyghur (in Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرچه, new spelling: UyÆ£urqÉ™ or ئۇيغۇر تىلى, UyÆ£ur tili; in Chinese: 维吾尔语 WéiwúěryÇ”) is a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), China. ... Kashmiri is a Dardic language primarily in Kashmir, in ancient India, now split between India Pakistan and China. ... Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Categories: Language stubs | Judaism-related stubs | Mizrahi Jews | Arab | Arabic languages | Jewish languages ... Ladino is a Romance language, derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew. ... Yiddish (Yid. ...

Common Commands

• setarab
• setfarsi
• setuighur
• set...

• novocalize (partial vocalization can be achieved using "a, "i, "u while in novocalize mode.)
• vocalize
• fullvocalize

• setcode{}
• settrans{}

Character Table

 ا A ARABIC LETTER ALEF ب b ARABIC LETTER BEH ت t ARABIC LETTER TEH ث _t ARABIC LETTER THEH ج j ARABIC LETTER JEEM ح .h ARABIC LETTER HAH خ x ARABIC LETTER KHAH د d ARABIC LETTER DAL ذ _d ARABIC LETTER THAL ر r ARABIC LETTER REH ز z ARABIC LETTER ZAIN س s ARABIC LETTER SEEN ش ^s ARABIC LETTER SHEEN ص .s ARABIC LETTER SAD ض .d ARABIC LETTER DAD ط .t ARABIC LETTER TAH ظ .z ARABIC LETTER ZAH ع ` ARABIC LETTER AIN غ .g ARABIC LETTER GHAIN ف f ARABIC LETTER FEH ق q ARABIC LETTER QAF ك k ARABIC LETTER KAF ل l ARABIC LETTER LAM م m ARABIC LETTER MEEM ن n ARABIC LETTER NOON و w ARABIC LETTER WAW ه h ARABIC LETTER HEH ي I ARABIC LETTER YEH َ a ARABIC FATHA ُ o ARABIC DAMMA ِ e ARABIC KASRA پ p ARABIC LETTER PEH چ ^c ARABIC LETTER TCHEH ژ ^z ARABIC LETTER JEH گ g ARABIC LETTER GAF ک k ARABIC LETTER KEHEH ی I ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH ۀ H-i ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH YEH آ 'A ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ة T ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA ء '| ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ABOVE ئ 'y ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE ؤ U' ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE ً aN ARABIC FATHATAN ّ xx ARABIC SHADDA ، , ARABIC COMMA ؛ ; ARABIC SEMICOLON ؟ ? ARABIC QUESTION MARK ٪ % ARABIC PERCENT SIGN SPACE . . FULL STOP ‌ hspace{0ex} ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER 

External link

• ArabTeX homepage