Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Ilda Khaki wrote: 1. Mixed-up categories: Plain TeX is a macropackage, luaTeX is an engine. No. It is not. When someone uses Plain TeX in an engine, he would say Plain TeX over the engine-name. It seems you know very little about Plain TeX. that's just a side effect of the engines dafaultin

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:20:08PM +1100, Ilda Khaki wrote: > This is a sample file, I am looking for. > > % > \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \textdir TRT \pardir TRT > \font\test=zar.ttf scaled\magstep0 > > هل انت کیقک؟ > \end > % > > But I

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 15.02.2009 um 08:20 schrieb Ilda Khaki: TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? 1. Mixed-up categories: Plain TeX is a macropackage, luaTeX is an engine. No. It is not.

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-15 Thread Ilda Khaki
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد < isha...@colostate.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki > wrote: > > I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different >> TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyon

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi, On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki wrote: I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? 1

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:17:26PM +1100, Ilda Khaki wrote: > I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX > engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting > Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? Curr

[NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

2009-02-13 Thread Ilda Khaki
I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? Thanks ___