CTAN has a new package: XePersian

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: XePersian Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xepersian Summary description: Typesetting Persian/Arabic in XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text:

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XePersian is a packge written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset Persian/Arabic easily. The current version is 0.1 and it will be developed to meet the needs of Persian typesetting completely. XePersian supports a lot of LaTeX packages and classes and intended to be a complete and proper package for typesetting Persian and Arabic.

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xepersian . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/XePersian (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .