ArabTeX

ArabTeX is a free software package providing Arabic and Hebrew script capabilities for TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it takes Romanized ASCII input to produce quality ligatures for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Maghribi, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Yiddish. ArabTeX characters are placed within a LaTeX document using the \< > delimiters.

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      ^g        ARABIC LETTER JEEM
 ح      .h        ARABIC LETTER HAH
 خ      _h        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      U         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        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      'w        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
 ‌      ||         ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

External link

• ArabTeX homepage