[Corpora-List] Typing Urdu text in LaTeX

[manaal faruqui]

Thanks all, the problem was solved by the method told by Paul. :)

Manaal

2011/7/13 Alberto Simões <albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>:
> Hello
>
> I am a complete ignorant about Urdu, but if you are able to type Urdu
> characters directly in UTF8, you can use XeLaTeX to typeset it.
>
> If this is a possibility, let me know and I'll help with the XeLaTeX
> document structure.
>
> All the best,
> Alberto
>
> On 12/07/2011 13:00, Paul Johnston wrote:
>>
>> Try something along the lines of
>>
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{arabtex}
>> \begin{document}
>> \begin{RLtext}
>> \seturdu
>> abcdefgijklmnop
>> \end{RLtext}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> I don't pretend to speak Urdu but it compiles and looks reasonable.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
>> manaal faruqui
>> Sent: 12 July 2011 11:53
>> To: corpora at uib.no
>> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Typing Urdu text in LaTeX
>>
>> I am using the transliteration given here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArabTeX
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:21 PM, manaal faruqui<manaalfar at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have to write a report in which I need to insert Urdu in Latex.
>>> I have used \usepackage{arabtex} and I am trying to use
>>>
>>> \texturdu{} to write the Urdu words, but its saying that its an
>>> "Undefined control sequence".
>>>
>>> I am using the transliteration given here:
>>>
>>> and the sty file from here:
>>> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/language/arabtex/texinput/arabtex.sty
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Manaal Faruqui
>>> 4th year UG student
>>> IIT Kharagpur, India
>>> http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~manaalf
>>>
>>
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