
Stats: Version 2.90 has 1,318 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. (cour.ttf, courbd.ttf, courbi.ttf and couri.ttf) Note: not all of them will also fully support Urdu, so you will have to try.Persian Unicode Fonts WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts Persian. Here is a list of known OpenType an TrueType fonts containing the Arabic script. If you use in the document settings the option use non-TeX fonts, you can use any OpenType or TrueType font. Otherwise you will get error messages when viewing your file as PDF. It is important that you select for your document fonts that contain the Arabic script. Now enter text in your document (which should be going from right to left now), save the file as a LyX file, then select File → Export → PDF (pdflatex).Hit the Apply button then close the Document Settings window.
Still in Document → Settings, go to Language and select Arabic (Arab TeX) as the Language, then change Encoding to Other and select Unicode (utf8) as the encoding, then select None for the Language package option. Hit the Save button in the Preferences window then restart LyX. Still in Tools → Preferences, go to Editing and under Keyboard/Mouse check the Use keyboard map option and for First select Farsi from the *.kmap files that are shown when hitting the Browse button. Still in Tools → Preferences, go to Output and select LaTeX, then change Use LaTeX font encoding to LAE,LFE in the provided text field. Change Command start to \selectlanguage in the provided text field. Start LyX, then in the menu Tools → Preferences go to Language Settings and select Language. open LyX and use the menu Tools → Reconfigure. install the package "texlive-lang-arab" from mintinstall. install LyX from mintinstall (package installer). This description is about the LaTeX-package arabtex that does not natively support Farsi.
For Farsi the LaTeX-package arabi should be used.
Setting Up LyX Under Ubuntu(mint) to Use it for Farsi