Re: typesetting Arabic today

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Hi, Burak,

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:09:14 -0600, Burak Emir <burak.emir@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid  
> <ishamid@colostate.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide
>>
>> was once the main guide. Aleph was a merge of etex and Omega, succeeded  
>> by
>> luatex. You can still use the old Omega way of doing things in luatex  
>> -- as
>> explained in that guide, but it's better to use the new mechanism and
>> opentype fonts.
>>
>
> My luatex is not working for the moment, I am using the context minimals
> distribution on MacOS X.
>
> Would the old Omega way documented on that page also work with the xetex
> engine?

No, XeTeX does not support Omega/Aleph commands. If you find an aleph  
binary for Mac I guess you could try that, but don't give up on luaTeX  
just yet, I'm sure someone on the list will figure out what's wrong....

Best wishes
Idris

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