nazm.tex

% The first command declare this document to be of type 'article', the most common type in LaTeX.
\documentclass{article}

% The geometry package, if used, must be the first package. We specify the four margins of the documents since the default values are too wide.
\usepackage[top=1.25in,bottom=1.25in,left=1.00in,right=1.00in]{geometry}

% The fontspec package allows us to change the main font to Nafees Nastaleeq for Urdu type-setting.
\usepackage{fontspec}

% bidi stands for bi-directional and gives access to the \setRTL command which allows us to specify that the text will flow from Left to Right
\usepackage{bidi}

\pagestyle{empty}           % Specifies the use of a no-frills page style
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=2.0]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq}         % Specify the main font. This must be installed in your system. Change the scale value to increase the default font size.
\parindent 0mm          % Declare that every paragraph will NOT start indented

% Defining commands for use later in this script

% The \emptylines command will take an integer and insert that many empty lines (vertical space)
\newcommand{\emptylines}[1]{\vspace{#1\baselineskip}}

% We define new lengths which specify how the misra (verses) are to be constrained spatially

\newlength{\Width}          % The width of each misra
\newlength{\Height}         % The height of text above the baseline
\newlength{\Depth}          % The depth of the text below the baseline
\newlength{\Separation}     % The additional vertical separation after every verse

% Change these values when you want to adjust the spatial properties of each verse
\setlength{\Width}{0.45\textwidth}           % \textwidth is the total width of text allowed on each line. We use only a fraction of this space
\setlength{\Height}{22pt}
\setlength{\Depth}{5pt}
\setlength{\Separation}{0.8\baselineskip}   % \baselineskip is the normal/default vertical height of each line. We add an additional fraction of it after every misra

% We define the environment \misra within which we will specify the text of the misra
\newcommand{\misra}[1]{\raisebox{0pt}[\Height][\Depth]{\makebox[\Width][s]{#1}}\\[\Separation]}

% The command above is constructed to give complete control over the spatial properties of each misra.
%
% The outer box is a raisebox which is used to constrain the vertical height of the misra.
% We specify the lift to be 0pt because we don't want to change the vertical position of the entire misra from its baseline.
% We then specify the height and depth of the box so that regardless of the text inside the vertical separation doesn't change.
%
% Next we place a makebox to constrain the misra horizontally.
% We specify the width of the misra.
% We also specify 's' to indicate that the content of the box should be stretched which is the required type-setting behaviour of Urdu poetry
%
% Finally we use \\[ ] to force a new line after every misra and include a small additional separation to keep them visually apart

% We declare it to be a makebox with the width defined above.
% We specify that the contents of the makebox are to be stretched (using 's') which is the expected type-setting behaviour of Urdu poetry
% Note the \\[0.2\baselineskip] after the makebox which forces a new-line after each misra since each misra should appear on its own line.

% We define a command for specifying the title of the poem
\renewcommand{\title}[1]{\begingroup \Large #1 \endgroup \emptylines{1}}
%
% The title text is placed inside a group (delimited by \begingroup and \endgroup).
% Inside the group we use \Large to increase the font size so that the title appears bigger than the default text
% We insert an additional empty line after the title to separate it from the rest of the text

\begin{document}        % The actual content of the document is about to start

\setRTL                 % The text will flow from Right to Left

\begin{center}          % The text in the 'center' block will appear horizontally centered

   \title{کتے}

   (فیض احمد فیض)
   \emptylines{3}       % Adds three empty lines worth of vertical space to separate the heading from the rest of the text


   % We start placing the misra one after the other. The \misra command takes place of all of the formatting required
   \misra{یہ گلیوں کے آوارہ بیکار کتے}
   \misra{کہ بخشا گیا جن کو ذوقِ گدائی}
   \misra{زمانے کی پھٹکار سرمایہ اِن کا}
   \misra{جہاں بھر کی دھتکار اِن کی کمائی}

   \emptylines{3}                                   % Insert three empty lines between each block of verses
   \misra{نہ آرام شب کو نہ راحت سویرے}
   \misra{غلاظت میں گھر، نالیوں میں بسیرے}
   \misra{جو بِگڑیں تو ایک دوسرے سے لڑا دو}
   \misra{ذرا ایک روٹی کا ٹکڑا دکھا دو}
   \misra{یہ ہر ایک کی ٹھوکریں کھانے والے}
   \misra{یہ فاقوں سے اُکتا کے مر جانے والے}

   \emptylines{3}
   \misra{یہ مظلوم مخلوق گر سر اٹھائے}
   \misra{تو انسان سب سرکشی بھول جائے}
   \misra{یہ چاہیں تو دنیا کو اپنا بنا لیں}
   \misra{یہ آقاؤں کی ہڈّیاں تک چبا لیں}
   \misra{کوئی ان کو احساسِ ذِلّت دلا دے}
   \misra{کوئی اِن کی سوئی ہوئی دم ہلا دے}

\end{center}

\end{document}