[Tex/LaTex] Urdu in latex (bold font)

polyglossiaxetex

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{arabxetex}

\newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq Kasheeda}

\begin{document}

\begin{urdu}

مندرجہ ذیل مساوات کو حل کریں $x_2 + m$ 

\end{urdu}

$x^2 + m$

\end{document}

I am running this program it works fine but the mathematical part is not shown properly within the \begin{urdu} ... \end{urdu} section, along with it i can't get the bold font while using the command \textbf and if someone suggests me using polyglossia then please provide me with an example 🙂

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The font you're using has no bold variant, as far as I can see. Using polyglossia is rather easy:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{urdu}

\newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq Kasheeda}

\begin{document}

مندرجہ ذیل مساوات کو حل کریں \quad $x^2 + m$ 

$x^2 + m$

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Simple example for writing Urdu using XeTeX with Nastaleeq font

Here is a typesetting of poem using IranNastaliq font and XePersian package. XePersian is included in texlive and in case you are missing it, you can get it from CTAN. One problem here is the font. IranNastaliq is designed for persian/farsi alphabet and despite of similarities between persian and urdu, it misses some of letters of urdu such as

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This being said, I think you can find an urdu nastaliq font, just add it to you tex file and you will be good to go. I don't see any major difference between typesetting persian and urdu. Here is a sample tex file containing a poem from Saadi with nastaliq font.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage{persianpoem}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont[Scale=1.3]{IranNastaliq}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{3.0}
\newcommand{\myverse}[2]{%
\makebox[4cm][s]{#1}
\makebox[2cm][s]{}
\makebox[4cm][s]{#2}%
}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

\title{سر عشق}
\author{سعدی}
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\thispagestyle{empty}

\myverse{هزار جهد بکردم که سر عشق بپوشم}
{نبود بر سر آتش میسرم که نجوشم}


\myverse{به هوش بودم از اول که دل به کس نسپارم}
{شمایل تو بدیدم نه عقل ماند و نه هوشم}


\myverse{به راه بادیه رفتن به از نشستن باطل}
{که گر مراد نیابم به قدر وسع بکوشم}



\end{document}

which gives you this:

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Please note that this is just a MWE and needs certain modification to be suitable for you purpose.

You can compile this from command line using:

xelatex your_poem.tex

To you use it with TexMaker, refer to this question.

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Above tex sample is borrowed from XePersian Forum and it's respected creator.

[Tex/LaTex] Write in Urdu font

A starting point is xelatex format and the polyglossia package. I have downloaded and installed the Scheherazade font and I enclose a result of my efforts. I am sorry if I misspelled the Urdu terms. I haven't tested that but I think that you can wrap your Urdu words and BibTeX/BibLaTeX should processed them, it is worth some experiments. It would be great to have some samples of books (a bib file) from you and how the output should look like.

%! xelatex mal-urdu.tex
% To download: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Scheherazade#1fd0063a
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{urdu}
\newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic,Language=Urdu,Scale=1.5]{Amiri} % or Scheherazade after installing the font
\begin{document}
Text before. \texturdu{ وہ کتاب ہے۔ میں جا رہا ہوں} Text after.
\end{document}

mwe

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