François Charette submitted an update to the

arabxetex

package.

Version number: 1.2.0 License type: lppl

Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- After 5 years of inactivity, this is release 1.2.0 of ArabXeTeX.

Changes from version 1.1.4 include:

- Fix problem with plain footnotes (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/223081/arabxetex-and-footnote) - Remove obsolete and superfluous parts from documentation - Default Arabic font is now Amiri instead of Scheherazade and Amiri is also used in the documentation. - Include a pull request from Khaled Hosny: * Improves the documentation and notably clears up the confusion around U+FDF2. Consequently the options fdf2alif and fdf2noalif are now DEPRECATED, as well as the commands SetAllahWithAlif and SetAllahWithoutAlif. * Fix placement of tanwin fatah * Fix handling of end of ayeh symbol in mapping ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/arabxetex

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For the CTAN Team Ina Dau