There is a draft version of the new
user manual.
Should you be an Orientalist, you might want to look at a small list of applications.
The package is available in packed form as "arabtex.zip" and "arabtds.zip" for PC users and "arabtex.tar.Z" for *N*X users. Depending on the server there may be also the unpacked files, or only these.
Check for the latest version of "apatch.sty". This file contains last minute corrections that possibly are not yet contained in the packed files. Users of the Hebrew mode should also look into "hepatch.sty".
The following ASCII files give more detailed information:
| arabtex.doc | a short introduction ( rather out of date) |
| arabtex.faq | answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (updated as necessary) |
| changes.txt | release history, new features, and known bugs (updated as necessary) |
| changes2.txt | release history up to version 3.00 |
| install.txt | list of available files, and installation notes |
| apatch.sty | last minute corrections; put this file onto the TEXINPUT path; it will patch automatically. (updated as necessary) |
The contents of a subdirectory "REPORT", if still present, are OBSOLETE.
Refer to the (draft of the)
user manual instead.
There was a prototype, ArabTeX Version 1, which is now OBSOLETE.
Version 2 was the first complete release accompanied by a manual,
but is no more being maintained.
Version 3 is an upward compatible extension of Version 2 with many new features, e.g. the possibility to read input files in the ASMO 449 and ISO 8859-6 Codes, and a host of new commands for better formatting of Arabic text, or catering for historic writing styles. Versions from 3.05 onward contain a package to process Hebrew, and provide long right-to-left insertions. For details, consult the manual and the ASCII file "readme.305".
ArabTeX is copyrighted. However, you may use it freely for any scientific, experimental and strictly personal, non-commercial purposes if you give proper credit to the author. We appreciate a complimentary copy of any scientific work produced with ArabTeX. If you consider other uses, enquire.
ArabTeX may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License distributed from CTAN
archives in the directory
macros/latex/base/lppl.txt"; either
version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
ArabTeX is an experimental system and supposed to change without prior notice. Whoever will use it does so at her/his/its own risk. We cannot take any responsibility on correct function, suitability for whatever purpose, or correct documentation.
If you have any complaints or suggestions, please forward them to the author. We shall consider any reasonable suggestion, but we will use our own judgment on changes, and our resources are severely limited.
If problems turn up while running ArabTeX, please check first at "ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de" whether there is a new version, or whether there are any new corrections in "apatch.sty". If the problem goes away with the new version, please inform the server you got ArabTeX from; otherwise send a bug report to the author.
The reference site
"ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de"
always holds the current version.
We know that the CTAN servers
"ftp.tex.ac.uk" ,
"ftp.dante.de" ,
"ctan.tug.org"
mirror this site and update on a regular schedule.
An empty E-Mail message to "arabtex@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de" will produce a current status report.
Prof. Klaus Lagally
Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Stuttgart
Breitwiesenstrasse 20-22
D-70565 Stuttgart
GERMANY
lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de