Arabt E X | Typesetting Arabic with Vowels and Ligatures

We present a T E X macro package for generating the arabic writing from a standardized ASCII input notation. It can handle partial or full vocalization, and generates automatically most of the common ligatures. There is limited support for Farsi, Urdu, and Pashto. ArabT E X is compatible with Plain T E X and also most L a T E X environments; arabic and other material can be mixed freely. For special purposes the standard transliteration can be additionally generated. ArabT E X uses no preprocessor and thus should be compatible with any T E X implementation that allows dynamic loading of additional macro les and fonts.