Re: I need your input for the AIG

[Petra dot Duenges at t-online dot de]

hallo, arafat,

have a look at "arabtex", if you do not know it already:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/TeX/languages/arabtex/arabtex.htm

it is an excellent, free software, compatible with (La)TeX.
what i like especially:

the input uses ASCII . at first this sounds not so very good.

but then the great thing comes (that is: for linguists like me  at
least):

if you give the input with vowels etc. then you can decide afterwards
with a single command
whether the output should be in arabic script (if so: with vowels or
without them)
or in one of a choice of different scientific transcriptions.

that is marvellous! 

even though arabtex is not exactly what you are after,
still some lessons might be learned from it.

thanks a lot for your efforts

all the best
      petra
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