From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0806090500v5989c26ex1cbbbd48f3c41c4a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080609115254.GA386@khaled-laptop>
2008/6/9 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about "Typesetting Arabic
>> today", and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid.
>> One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have and LuaTeX can find is
>> Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is
>> the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their
>> isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX
>> gives a nice result.
>
> May be the font is built with AAT tables and not OpenType, XeTeX
> supports AAT on mac but I don't think LuaTeX does.
This seem to be the answer, take a look at
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Problems_with_Fonts#Problems_when_using_Arabic_and_Indic_script_languages
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-09 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-09 9:13 Otared Kavian
2008-06-09 9:23 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-09 11:38 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-09 15:09 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-09 15:21 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-09 16:07 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-09 16:43 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-09 16:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-09 20:45 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-09 21:09 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-09 21:40 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-09 17:00 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-09 17:03 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-09 11:52 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-09 12:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-06-09 14:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-09 23:25 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-10 8:09 ` Hans Hagen
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