From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:05:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090213140544.GA12227@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <598a61650902121917l2037bb35ue16c4ad340cc39e9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:17:26PM +1100, Ilda Khaki wrote:
> I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX
> engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting
> Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated?
Currently, you can't do that unless:
* Use OCP and type1 fonts, the only publicly available font (that I know
of) is OmegaSerifArabic, which is not that atractive.
* Typeset the plain TeX document with ConTeXt and use ConTeXt's OpenType
layout capabilities, this will give you much better result but it
is plain TeX+ not plain any more.
If you sent me a sample Unicode encoded plain TeX file, I'll gladly try
to typeset it either way for you.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 3:17 Ilda Khaki
2009-02-13 14:05 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2009-02-13 14:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-15 7:20 ` Ilda Khaki
2009-02-15 9:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-15 10:06 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-16 9:40 ` Hans Hagen
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