LaTeX forum ⇒ Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Text direction of Arabic in table Topic is solved

[Ahmed Sokar]

Hello,

I want to write arabic in table

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\documentclass[14pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LAE]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german,arabic]{babel}
 
 
\begin{document}
محمد - أحمد 
 
         \begin{tabular}[]{|c|c|}\hline
                 محمد & أحمد 
         \\\hline
         \end{tabular}
 
\end{document}

The result is

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So how can i force the text direction from right to left in the table?

[Johannes_B]

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ahmed,

welcome to the forum!

If anything doesn't work, save it in a box. That's good for TikZ nodes, but also for tabular content or content that shows issues within another environment.

Declare a box:

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\newsavebox{\mybox}

Use it, in this case we chose the array package to define a new column type, here C for right to left centered:

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\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}}c<{\end{lrbox}\AR{\unhbox\mybox}}}

Then you can use C in your table instead:

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\begin{tabular}[]{|C|C|
...

Complete example:

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\documentclass[14pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LAE]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german,arabic]{babel}
 
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}}c<{\end{lrbox}\AR{\unhbox\mybox}}}
\begin{document}
محمد - أحمد 
 
         \begin{tabular}[]{|C|C|}\hline
                 محمد & أحمد 
         \\\hline
         \end{tabular}
 
\end{document}

That's similar to what Salim Bou suggested.

Stefan

[Ahmed Sokar]

That worked

thank you!