From: "Burak Emir" <burak.emir@gmail.com>
To: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: typesetting Arabic today
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:03:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac0ce270806071503u3bfab21ap4703c29a3d168c27@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.ucee5qyrnx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>
Selaam,
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>
wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:20 -0600, Burak Emir <burak.emir@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Here is what I did, in detail
>
>>
>> export OSFONTSDIR=/Users/buraq/Library/Fonts
>>> ls $OSFONTSDIR/arabtype.ttf
>>>
>> /Users/buraq/Library/Fonts/arabtype.ttf
>>
>>> luatools --generate
>>> mtxrun --script font --reload
>>> texexec --luatex traditional_arabic-test.tex
>>>
>> ...
>> define font | font with name arabtype is not found
>> define font | unknown font arabtype, loading aborted
>> ! Font \TradArabic=arabtype*test2 at 28pt not loadable: metric data not
>> found or bad.
>>
>
> I'm curious, does it work if you put the font in the current directory?
>
Yes, this worked! : D What a pleasure to see the fruits of debugging.
Shukran : )
Can one tell "luatools --generate" to see which path it picks up from
OSFONTSDIR? There are some nice arabic fonts that come with Mac systems (or
maybe, they came with the KeyNote or Pages, I don't know)
Burak
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-01 16:31 Burak Emir
2008-06-02 6:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-02 18:43 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-02 19:18 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-04 0:24 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-06 6:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-06 7:43 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-07 10:37 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-07 20:09 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-07 20:18 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-07 20:48 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-07 20:58 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-07 21:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-07 21:11 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-07 21:45 ` Burak Emir
[not found] ` <op.ucee5qyrnx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>
2008-06-07 22:03 ` Burak Emir [this message]
2008-06-07 22:28 ` Burak Emir
2008-06-08 6:22 ` Burak Emir
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