Thank you all for helping Yup, I installed the texlive-lang-arabic from mint package installer. arabic-article appeared in document after that I did as http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268654 but I got a error while exporting pdf(flatex)
Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help. My document encoding is unicode(utif8) what should I change? and for reporting this email to forum what should I do? thanks again On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Ibrahim El Merehbi <[email protected]>wrote: > Actually upon further investigation, I found out: > > Tools > TeX Information > arabart.cls (is present) > > I "reconfigured" LyX & restarted it & there it was: Article[Arabic] > > BUT > > the problem that Scribus has is present in LyX. > > I am not sure which version it was, but I once tried writing in LyX in > Arabic & it worked well. What I'm sure of is that it was running under > Ubuntu 10.04 (x86) > > What do you think? > > On Wed 13 Feb 2013 11:25:54 PM EET, Bob Merhebi wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm joining you guys regarding writing Arabic in LyX. I know Arabic & > > some LyX so I guess I can help. > > > > So far I have not used Arabic in LyX. > > > > On 02/12/2013 10:09 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> I have no knowledge of Arabic, unfortunately, but following the > >> instructions on the wiki seems to work for me, including right-to-left > >> typing: > > > > Right-to-Left is not enough; Arabic is a complex language which requires > > connecting letters and glyph formation. Here's an example from Scribus > > which has been open for a long time & still not resolved (not sure why): > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1079 > > > >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Arabic > >> It requires: > >> > >> 1. Setting the document class to Article(Arabic) > > > > Doesn't exist in my installation: > > > > LyX 2.0.5.1 (2012-11-03) > > Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (x86_64) > > > >> 2. Choosing "Arabic" from Document>>Settings>>Language, as Guy said > >> 3. Installing Arabic fonts for correct display in Lyx (the pdf would be > >> fine without them, them) > >> > >> If you do not have article[Arabic] in the Document>>Settings dropdown > menu, > >> there may be something missing in your latex installation. > > > > The only relevant Arabic files I found are: > > > > /usr/share/lyx/kbd/arabic.kmap > > /usr/share/lyx/layouts/arab-article.layout > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/genmisc/arabic.tex > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bezos/arabicfront.sty > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arab.mld > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arab2.mld > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arabi.mld > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/minitoc/arabic.mld > > > > Maybe the 2nd is relecant? > > > > The > >> article(Arabic) option uses the arabart.cls document class, which, on > my TL > >> 2012 linux system, lives in > >> > >> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabtex/arabart.cls > >> > > Nothing of this sort! > > > > It appears to be part of the package: texlive-langextra > > which doesn't seem to be in Ubuntu > > > > Running "apt-cache search texlive" results in finding: > > > > texlive-lang-arabic - TeX Live: Arabic > > > > Installing it didn't change anything in LyX. Still no Article[Arabic]! > > > > I guess we need ArabTex: > > http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.htm > > > > In this I need help; I prefer to use Ubuntu's repositories unless it is > > not possible at all. > > > >> Try looking for a file called arabart.cls and see if you can find it in > >> your system. > >> Which platform are you on? Linux, Mac, Windows? Instructions for the > >> installation of missing packages vary depending on the platform. > > > > Not sure what parastoo is using as his system but mine is as stated > above. > > > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Stefano > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Guy Rutenberg <[email protected] > >wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Parastoo, > >>> > >>> I've no experience using LyX with Arabic or Farsi, so I only guess. > Have > >>> you set the language correctly in Document->Settings->Language? At > least > >>> for Hebrew it's necessary. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Guy > >>> > >>> > >>> On 31 January 2013 00:05, Parastoo Mojabi <[email protected] > >wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Parastoo Mojabi < > >>>> [email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> hope you are doing great. > >>>>> > >>>>> I have difficulties making lyx in Farsi, I did as the internet > saying, > >>>>> but article[arabic] is un available in my document class, I paste > >>>>> article-arabic.layout. every where but still doesnt work. > >>>>> now my document is left to right which i wanted to be right to left > and > >>>>> the letters of arabic showing is wrong. > >>>>> > >>>>> please help me > >>>>> > >>>>> cheers > > > > > > > > -- > Sincerely Yours, > El Merehbi, Ibrahim > > TB > >
