\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}Activating Arab\TeX }{5}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Input to Arab\TeX }{6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.1}Arabic text elements}{6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.2}Commands in an {\pem {}Arabic context }}{7}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {3}Language selection}{10}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}Font selection}{11}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {5}Input coding conventions}{12}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.1}Standard Arabic and Persian characters}{12}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.2}Quoting}{15}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.3}Ligatures}{16}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.4}Vowelization}{16}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.5}Verbatim input}{17}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.6}Alternate input codings}{17}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {6}Transliteration}{19}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6.1}ZDMG transliteration style}{19}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6.2}Encyclopedia of Islam style}{20}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {7}Support for other languages besides Arabic}{21}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.1}Persian (Farsi, Dari), also Ottoman, Kurdish}{21}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.2}Urdu}{22}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.3}Pashto (Afghanic)}{22}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.4}Maghribi}{23}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.5}Other languages}{24}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {8}Miscellaneous features}{25}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.1}Automatic stretching}{25}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.2}Dots on {\pem {}y{\accent 22 a}'\/}}{25}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.3}Additional codings}{25}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.4}Progress report}{26}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.5}Verbatim copy of the input}{27}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8.6}Using Arab\TeX \ with EDMAC}{27}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {9}Acknowledgments}{28}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {10}References}{29}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {A}Obtaining Arab\TeX }{32}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {B}Installing Arab\TeX }{33}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {C}Release history}{34}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {D}Sample Arab\TeX \ input}{36}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {E}Sample Arab\TeX \ output}{37}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {F}Coding examples for Arabic}{38}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {G}Coding examples for Persian}{45}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {H}Alternate input encodings}{48}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {H.1}ASMO 449 = ISO 9036}{48}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {H.2}ASMO 449E = ISO 8859 - 6}{50}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {I}Miscellaneous utilities}{52}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {I.1}twoblks.sty}{52}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {I.2}abjad.sty}{53}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {I.3}MLS2ARAB}{53}
\contentsline {chapter}{Index}{54}