From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41471 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:10 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806090500v5989c26ex1cbbbd48f3c41c4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080609115254.GA386@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213012924 3362 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 12:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:02:04 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 09 14:02:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5g59-0003bt-M0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7091FC27; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:01:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27000-02-3; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E4C1FC16; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633511FC16 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27003-04-2 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DC31FC11 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1562054ywm.74 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.45.6 with SMTP id x6mr6232231ybj.6.1213012810609; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 05:00:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080609115254.GA386@khaled-laptop> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41471 Archived-At: 2008/6/9 Khaled Hosny : > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________