Overview

This package provides for LuaLaTeX an ArabTeX-like interface to generate Arabic writing from an ascii transliteration. It is particularly well-suited for complex documents such as technical documents or critical editions where a lot of left-to-right commands intertwine with Arabic writing. arabluatex is able to process any ArabTeX input notation. Its output can be set in the same modes of vocalization as ArabTeX, or in different roman transliterations. It further allows many typographical refinements. It will eventually interact with some other packages yet to come to produce from .tex source files, in addition to printed books, TEI xml compliant critical editions and/or lexicons that can be searched, analyzed and correlated in various ways.

License and disclamer

ArabLuaTeX – Processing ArabTeX notation under LuaLaTeX

Copyright ⓒ 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert Alessi:

• email: alessi@robertalessi.net

• website: https://sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex

• comments, feature requests, bug reports: https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex

This release of arabluatex consists of the following source files:

• arabluatex.ins

• arabluatex.dtx

• arabluatex.lua

• arabluatex_voc.lua

• arabluatex_fullvoc.lua

• arabluatex_novoc.lua

• arabluatex_trans.lua

Installation

1. Run 'lualatex arabluatex.ins' to produce the arabluatex.sty file;

2. To finish the installation you have to move the following files into a directory where LaTeX can find them. See the FAQ on texfaq.org at https://texfaq.org/FAQ-inst-wlcf for more on this:

   • arabluatex.sty

   • arabluatex-patch.sty

   • arabluatex.lua

   • arabluatex_voc.lua

   • arabluatex_fullvoc.lua

   • arabluatex_novoc.lua

   • arabluatex_trans.lua

3. Additionally, those who use emacs with AUCTeX may copy arabluatex.el to their ~/.emacs.d/auctex/auto local directory. This will enable the appropriate hooks for ArabLuaTeX in AUCTeX.

Development, Git Repository

Browse the code

You can browse ArabLuaTeX repository on the web: http://git.robertalessi.net/arabluatex
or
https://sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex

From this page, you can download all the releases of ArabLuaTeX. For instructions on how to install ArabLuaTeX, please see above.

Comments, Feature requests, Bug Reports

https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex

Download the repository

ArabLuaTeX development is facilitated by git, a distributed version control system. You will need to install git (most Unix/Linux distributions package it in their repositories).

Use this command to download the repository

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex

A new directory named arabluatex will have been created, containing ArabLuaTeX.

Git hosting

Make an account on https://sh.ht and navigate (while logged in) to https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/arabluatex. Click Clone repo to your account and you will have in your account your own repository of arabluatex where you will be able to make whatever changes you like to.