Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: But at this stage of development, only pure OpenType fonts will be supported out of the box. For example: Traditional Arabic, which comes with XP, has OpenType tables but depends on Uniscribe instead of OpenType for, eg, making marks exceptions to the

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2008/6/9 Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

[NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
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

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 11:23, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: […] What happens with the following setups from Idris. \definefontfeature [test] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes,

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:13:06AM +0200, 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

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2008/6/9 Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:13:06AM +0200, 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

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear Otared, Salaam On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:13:06 -0600, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Burak Emir
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, Thank you for your attention. However this is exactly what I did. \font\TradArabic = Nadeem*testat 18pt Hi Otared, I also tried with Nadeem, and I had exactly the same problem. Can you try

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 17:09, Burak Emir wrote: […] Hi Otared, I also tried with Nadeem, and I had exactly the same problem. Hi Burak, Thank you for testing that font. As a matter of fact I am not especially attracted to that font, but for some reason, unknwon to me, it is the only one (in

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's what I did export OSFONTDIR=Library/Fonts export

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Burak Emir
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's what I did

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Not sure if LuaTeX handles the tilde; in case it doesn't, put the whole path there. Mojca Hi Mojca and all, As a matter of fact here is what I

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Not sure if LuaTeX handles the tilde; in case it doesn't, put the whole path there. Mojca Hi Mojca and all, As a

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Actually, I think the order of the directories should be slightly different ... if LuaTeX wants to blend in nicely with the Mac file system domains it should search for the fonts in the following