From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41432 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: typesetting Arabic today Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:04:40 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00806071404x5c936223nbcc2e629f5135ee7@mail.gmail.com> References: <115224fb0806012329m686e4aa6n63552d59c3fac229@mail.gmail.com> 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 1212872786 24005 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 21:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Idris Samawi Hamid To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 07 23:07:09 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 1K55cz-0005kZ-5c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341B61FBB5; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:06:20 +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 28958-03-2; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:05:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3443F1FCC7; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:05:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA931FCC7 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:05:25 +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 28963-01-2 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:04:41 +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 455A31FCD7 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1191853ywm.74 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.12.4 with SMTP id p4mr2976753ybi.103.1212872680104; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.83.13 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:04:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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:41432 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Burak Emir wrote: > > Let me ask another question then: once luatex works, how can I make use of > the ttf font? I suppose it is not as simple as copying it in the > fonts/truetype directory and running mktexlsr? Yes, you only need to copy the font to fonts/truetype or fonts/opentype (but use some subfolders) or set export OSFONTSDIR=/path/to/your/fonts and run luatoos --generate which is the mkiv equivalent of mktexlsr (not even sure if that's still needed). Afterwards, you can use the font with \font\a="font name" \a but you probably need arabic features (and high-level interface is preferred). \definefontsynonym[myfont][name:Name of Your Font][features=default] but probably not default for Arabic. I let Idris answer that question. > I had a glance at the mfonts.pdf manual, and I already installed FontForge > aka pfaedit, but I do not know yet how it all plays together. You don't need any of it. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________