[XeTeX] urgent help needed

[Zdenek Wagner]

Dear Mohammad,

you should first explain what exactly is going on. The tex files for
ArabXeTeX are plain text files using english alphabet only. You should
be able to open them in any text editor including notepad. If the
files can be opened in notepad but not in TeXmaker, it is a problem of
TeX maker. Something may be wrong with registers etc. If your source
files are correct, you can try to run xetex from the "black window"
command prompt. If it works, you will know that TeXmaker menu is not
working. If it does not work, your MiKTeX is not installed properly.
Again, there may be some conflict between the old and new version.

I am not a Windows user and do not use MiKTeX, I cannot provide
further help but without detailed description of the problem nobody
will help. I can only try to process your files on the latest TeX Live
on Linux in order to see whether it still works. I have the full
installation including some arabic fonts.

2014-04-01 9:25 GMT+02:00 Mohammad Gharaibeh <mgharaibeh at uni-bonn.de>:
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> hope this finds everyone well.
>
> Well, my problem will certainly look a bit stupid but there is a story
> behind it I probably should start with.
>
> In 2007/8 my colleague and me wanted to edit an Arabic manuscript and we
> decided to do it with XeTeX. Everything works fine so far. But when in 2009
> the funding ended we were force to put the project aside. Now, five years
> later we decide to bring the project to an end and I started to work with
> XeTeX again. Since we already finished the editing process I just needed to
> add some corrections and everything seems fine. But then, I did something
> very stupid. I connected the old laptop at which we had installed Mik Tex
> and Tex Maker with the internet and the program tried to make an update.
>
> There I recognized five years won't pass without new technological
> developments. Now my system tells me that I should switch to the current
> version of Mik Tex and Tex Maker too, has already been developed further. I
> would have continued to use the old version if it had functioned normally.
> But obviously it doesn't work normally anymore.
>
> For this, I downloaded and installed the Mik Tex 2.9 and tried to open the
> old files with it. But this does not work properly either.
>
> I probably need to change just a few settings but after five years of not
> working with XeTeX at all I am simply overstrained with it.
>
>
>
> If anyone could help me I would be more than grateful for that!
>
>
>
> Here are some basic information:
>
> We used: Mik Tex 2.7; Tex Maker; ArabXetex
>
> We needed two different footnote settings, one for the edition (in Arabic)
> and one for comments in English. If things would be easier with just one
> type of footnote that would be good too. We would put the comments at
> another place in the book.
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> Please find attached also an example with a PDF of a earlier version.
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> Hope, that there is a solution for my problem
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>
> Best,
>
> Mohammad Gharaibeh
>
>
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