On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:03:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>
wrote:
I totally agree with you, more ever I hop that at some point in the
future, just selecting certain language will be enough to get proper
display of it, some thing like:
\mainlanguage[arabic]
\startext
أهلا بالعالم!
\stoptext
Fonts will always be complicated... for what you are describing we need to
start with a default Arabic-script font for TeX, like LM for Latin. My
suggestion is to make Scheherazade that font, since it is free,
distributable, and supports nearly all Arabic script languages. We could
make two settings:
one for Scheherazade as the LM fallback for the needed Ar-script ranges
for unicode,
another for Scheherazade as the main font, with Termes as Latin fallback.
That will give us a benchmark from which to proceed with other fonts. If I
get time I'll try to build typescripts etc for this scenario, or Khaled or
someone else can take on this task, and I'll review it.
Even Scheherazade has lots of options, and it will take some research to
get the "ideal" default even here.
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
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