CTAN has a new package: arabxetex

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 François Charette submitted the new package arabxetex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text:

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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. Input in ArabTeX notation can be set in three different vocalization modes or in roman transliteration. Direct UTF-8 input is also supported. The parsing and converting of ArabTeX input to Unicode is done by means of TECkit mappings. Version 1.0 provides support for Arabic, Maghribi Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Jawi (Malay) and Uighur. The documentation (not yet complete) covers topics such as typesetting the Holy Quran, typesetting bidirectional critical editions (with ednotes), and information on various recommended OpenType fonts for the Arabic script and for transliterating Oriental languages.

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This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf