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From: Ilda Khaki <ilda.khaki@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:20:08 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <598a61650902142320v6b52186cm671a6464c86e3e8c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.upaow20ofkrasx@your-b27fb1c401>


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On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <
ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki <ilda.khaki@gmail.com>
> 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?
>>
>
> 1. Mixed-up categories: Plain TeX is a macropackage, luaTeX is an engine.


No. It is not. When someone uses Plain TeX in an engine, he would say Plain
TeX over the engine-name. It seems you know very little about Plain TeX.


>
>
> 2. Your question is way too general. You could use ArabTeX with the
> original TeX engine, and there are other systems out there too...


No. It seems you did not understand my question at all. If I wanted to use
arabtex, I would not bother at all to write to this list.


>
>
> 3. For real-life 21'st century practical purposes (viz utf-8 + opentype)
> your choices are XeTeX and LuaTeX.
>
> 4. Without a more precise question I cannot really recommend which way to
> go from here.


This is a sample file, I am looking for.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \textdir TRT \pardir TRT
\font\test=zar.ttf scaled\magstep0

هل انت کیقک؟
\end
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

But I do not know how to define the font so that Arabic alphabets are not
isolated.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15  7:20 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
2009-02-13 14:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-15  7:20   ` Ilda Khaki [this message]
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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