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+ Arabi System
+ Version 1.1
+ (c) Youssef Jabri
+
+
+An author maintained LPPL system to write in Arabic and Farsi.
+Fully compatible with BABEL and can use commercial fonts
+(as well as free ones :)
+
+See the PDF user guide in the documentation folder texmf/doc/arabi
+concerning how to use the system!
+
+
+Among the new things with Version 1.1:
+==========================
++ You can search and copy Arabic and Farsi text from PDF files generated by pdflatex (read the documentation to know how to)
++ You can use TeX4ht to make HTML files.
++ Now we can have Arabic in the bookmarks sidebar, although hyperref is still not fully supported yet.
++ In Farsi contexts, Digits (0, 1, . . . , 9) are written with the extended Indo-Arabic (Farsi) digits.
++ Changed some control sequences to more standard forms and less problematic ones, (request made during TUG 2006)
+\R --> \textRL
+\L --> \textLR (\L is used by the Polish languagae)
+\embox --> \LRmbox
+\ambox --> \ARmbox
+\fmbox --> \FRmbox
++ Only the following Farsi fonts from the Farsiweb project are Free (GPL):
+(Nazli, Nazli bold, Homa, Titr). The others should be GPL'ed in their next release. Thank you R. Pournader.
+I modified the free fonts Notices to say they are GPL, as suggested by Pournader, and removed
+the non free ones from Arabi.
+
+Last minute addenum:
+====================
+To get your system to know about the Type 1 (.pfb) files that come
+with "Arabi":
+
+in principle,
+
+1) a line like:
++p arabi.map
+should be added to the file "config.ps" in the "/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config" folder.
+But since this file is updated automatically, all information that is added manually
+is (will be) overwritten and lost!
+
+2) or u should call dvips with the option -u "dvips arabi.map"
+
+3) There's also "dvips -P arabi " where "config.arabi" contains at least
+the line "p +arabi.map".
+
+4) The best way:
+You should know how to use the "updmap" utility that comes
+with your specific Installation.
+
+Concerning MikTeX:
+==================
+Arabi is a part of MikTeX 2.5, so just call the package manager and get it to install Arabi for you.
+If you still use an earlier version, just download Arabi, unzip it where due and:
+1. create an empty configuration file "updmap.cfg" in the local config
+ directory, e.g.
+ C:\localtexmf\miktex\config\updmap.cfg
+(For your information, a file "updmap.cfg" comes in /texmf/web2c/
+YOU SHOULD NOT MODIFY IT, because this file can be
+overwritten by the MiKTeX Update Wizard.)
+
+2. start editing the file:
+ e.g.: notepad C:\localtexmf\miktex\config\updmap.cfg
+
+3. add the following configuration settings,
+
+# arabi
+Map arabi.map
+
+then save the file
+
+4. update the file name database:
+ initexmf -u
+
+5. create the font map files:
+ initexmf --mkmaps
+
+Settings specified in the local configuration file take precedence
+over those specified in the main configuration file
+(i.e. /texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg).
+
+
+