From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41478 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:52:42 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: 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 1213023299 10571 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 14:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:54:59 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 09 16:55:37 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 1K5im5-0008Gh-Un for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:55:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10911FD37; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:54:17 +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 13668-01-8; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:53:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A2C1FC82; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:53:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE7B1FBDB for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:53:31 +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 13963-01-6 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F1D01FCF5 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:52:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 20882 invoked by uid 1006); 9 Jun 2008 14:52:51 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 0.344052 secs); 09 Jun 2008 14:52:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.6) by -v with SMTP; 9 Jun 2008 14:52:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20680 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2008 14:52:48 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (75.104.82.252) by -v with SMTP; 9 Jun 2008 14:52:48 -0000 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.24 (Win32) 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:41478 Archived-At: Dear Otared, Salaam On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:13:06 -0600, Otared Kavian wrote: > Dear all, > > I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about "Typesetting Arabic > today", and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid. > One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have and LuaTeX can find is > Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting > is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with > their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt > or XeTeX gives a nice result. Can you privately me that font Nadeem please? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________