ArabTeX is a system designed for typesetting Arabic and Persian scripts using TeX, a typesetting system widely used for producing high-quality documents. Developed by Martin Burrows, ArabTeX allows users to include Arabic text in their documents while providing support for proper typesetting conventions that are unique to these languages, such as right-to-left text direction and the contextual shaping of Arabic letters. ArabTeX operates by translating Arabic script into a kind of transliteration that can be processed by TeX.
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