Thank you so much Stefano, mine is working
I installed texlive-lang-arabic
reconfigured lyx
then
1. Start LyX, then in Tools --> Preferences go to Language Settings and
select Language. Change *Command start* to *\selectlanguage{arabic}*, and
change *Language package* to Custom, and enter*
\usepackage[farsi,arabic]{babel}* in the provided textfield.
2. Still in Tools --> Preferences, go to Output and select LaTeX, then
change *Use LaTeX font encoding* to *LAE,LFE* in the provided textfield.
3. Still in Tools --> Preferences, go to Editing and under Keyboard/Mouse
check the *Use keyboard map* option and for *First* select farsi from the
*.kmap files that are shown when hitting the Browse button.
4. Hit the Save button in the Preferences window then restart LyX.
5. Once you've re-opened LyX, open a new document then go to Document -->
Settings, and under *Document Class* select *article (Arabic)* from the
list..
6. Still in Document --> Settings, go to Language and select *Arabic (Arab
TeX)* as the *Language*, then change *Encoding* to Other and select *Unicode
(utf8)* as the encoding, then select *None* for the*Language package*
option.
7. Hit the Apply button then close the Document Settings window
8. Now enter text in your document (which should be going from right to
left now), save the file as a LyX file, then select File --> Export --> PDF
(pdflatex). You should get a PDF with Arabic in it.
and now its working.
Thank you so much.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:11 AM, stefano franchi
<stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Bob Merhebi <bobmerh...@gmail.com> 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
>>
>>
> Cannot help here. I'm aware of the complexities of Arabic script, but I
> have no means to check if lyx (or, rather, Tex) gets it right. Sorry.
>
>
>> > 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)
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> This is a problem with Ubuntu (and Mint, which is Ubuntu based). In fact
> it is a problem with all Debian-based distros, as far as I know. The
> problem is that their packaged version of tex are:
>
> (1) Broken up in several packages, and the user often does not know which
> are required ofr the task at hand
>
> (2) Often well behind officially distributed versions. (When I stopped
> using Ubuntu it was 2 years behind.)
>
> My, very personal, recommendation is to stop using the Ubuntu-packaged
> version of tex and install manually Texlive instead. It used to be a
> complicated to manage your own Tex installation. Now that Texlive comes
> with its own distribution manager (called tlmgr --- tex live manager), it
> is much simpler
> However, I do understand that other users may have different preferences,
>
>
>
>> Installing it didn't change anything in LyX. Still no Article[Arabic]!
>>
>
>
> Every time you install a new latex package you need to reconfigure Lyx and
> restart it. Otherwise Lyx cannot use the newly installed package.
>
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> Arabtex should be in the package you installed:
> texlive-lang-arab<http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/texlive-lang-arab>
> .Otherwise, you can install it from CTAN:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabtex
>
> (Or with the tex manager I mentioned above if you switch to your own
> texlive installation).
>
> If you install it manually, remember that you must run texhash as a
> superuser afterwards. That is, you must open a terminal window and type the
> command
> sudo texhash
>
>
>
> > 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.
>>
>>
> His system is Linux Mint, which is similar to Ubuntu. Hence he has the
> same problem as your.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
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