% arabdocg.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section [Coding examples for Persian]% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% {Coding examples for Persian%} \footnote {We gratefully acknowledge the voluntary help by Ivan Derzhanski who wrote this chapter, {\em and\/} implemented the language-specific processing. As we extensively modified his routines during system integration, all responsibility for any remaining, or new, errors rests with us.}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \index{Derzhanski, Ivan} \let < \oldbra \setfarsi % choose the language conventions \fullvocalize % all diacritics on \transtrue % additionally switch on the transliteration \arabtrue % print Arabic text ... is on anyway \showtrue % give also the input coding \spreadfalse \begin{description} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The short vowels {\it\ae\ (\u{a})}, {\it e (\u{\i})}, {\it o (\u{u})}] are denoted by the lowercase letters \verb>a>, \verb>e> or \verb>i>, \verb>o> or \verb>u>: \index{.\harakat} \index{vowels!short} , , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The long vowels {\it a (\=a)}, {\it i (\=\i, \=e)}, {\it u (\=u, \=o)}] are denoted by the capital letters \verb>A>, \verb>I> or~\verb>E>, \verb>U> or~\verb>O>. {\it{\AE}lef m{\ae}dde} is automatically generated for word-initial {\it a}: \index{vowels!long} \index{.\madda} , , , . Note that \verb>I> yields a {\it ya-ye m\ae`ruf} (with~{\it zir\/}), whilst \verb>E> yields a {\it ya-ye m{\ae}jhul} (without~{\it zir\/}). Similarly, \verb>U> yields a {\it waw-e m\ae`ruf} (with~{\it pi\v{s}\/}), whilst \verb>O> yields a {\it waw-e m{\ae}jhul} (without~{\it pi\v{s}\/}): \index{.\zir} \index{.\pish} , ; , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The diphthongs {\it\t{e}\i} and {\it\t{o}u}] are written \verb>ay> and \verb>aw>: \index{ay} \index{aw} \index{diphthongs} , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [Intervocalic \it\d{h}{\ae}mze] is written \verb>'>: \index{.\hamza} ; % , ; , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [Silent word-final \it waw] is generated by \verb>_U> or \verb>O>: \index{_U} \index{O} , ; , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [\it Waw-e m\ae`dul] is written \verb>w>; it is omitted in the transliteration and the preceding {\it xe} receives no {\it j{\ae}zm}: \index{.\sukun} <_hwAb>, <_hwI^s>, <_hwod>. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [\it Ha-ye h{\ae}ww{\ae}z-e m{\ae}xfi] is generated by \verb>H>, or optionally by \verb>,e>, \verb>,a> or \verb>,A>. It does not receive a {\it j{\ae}zm} even in fully vocalised mode and is not joined to a following letter: \index{H} \index{,a} \index{,e} \index{,A} \index{.\sukun} <_hAneH>, <^c,e>, , \\ , %<_hAn,ehA>, <_hAn,e-hA>. <_hAneHhA>, <_hAneH-hA>. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [\it Short e\d{d}afe] is written \verb>-e> or \verb>-i>: \index{.\izafet} , , , \\ , , \\ . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [\it Long e\d{d}afe] is written \verb>-_i>: \index{.\izafet} , <_hU-_i t_U>. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [{\it\d{H}{\ae}mze} as {\it ya-ye w\ae\d{h}d{\ae}t/nesb{\ae}t/xe\d{t}ab}] is likewise written \verb>-_i>: \index{.\hamza} , , \\ . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [\it Ye-ye w\ae\d{h}d{\ae}t] is written \verb>-I> or \verb>-E>: \index{.\yahiwahdat} , , ; , ; , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The present tense forms of the verb {\it bud{\ae}n}] and the pronominal clitics are written as they are spoken: , , , , , ; , ; , , ; , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The preposition \it be-] can be written with or without a hyphen: \index{be-} , ; , , . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item [The components of compounds] can be separated by \verb>||> or \verb>"|>: \index{compounds} <.sA.heb||_hAneH>, \\ ; , , \\ . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \end{description} \transfalse \showfalse \endinput %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%