2012/2/26 Tobias Schoel <[email protected]>: > Thanks for your help, Zdenek, Kamal and Khaled. > > ... > > So how should I tell fontspec (and polyglossia?) to usually write in Arabic > using Amiri and only use TeX Gyre Pagella for Latin Script resp. English > Language? > e.g. by defining \arabicfont. > >> >>> Finally, a little question concerning Arabic typesetting in General: >>> >>> The above line in Arabic shall be a headline for instructions, so it >>> should be heavily emphasised. In Latin script, I would typeset it >>> larger and with a bold face. In Arabic, this seems to be wrong as >>> the usual Arabic fonts don't include bold faces. So how is heavy and >>> attention drawing emphasis done in Arabic script? >> >> >> In traditional Arabic printing, either a larger version of the regular >> typeface will be used or an entirely different typeface, often of >> heavier design and sometimes of different style (e.g. a Riqaa or even >> Nastaliq). Today bold is quite acceptable (but though Amiri have a bold >> font, it is not as polished as the regular one, yet). Someday, I'll have >> an Amiri Display optical variant :) > > In my Texlive2011 installation, Amiri is present, but fc-list only lists a > regular variant and \bfseries doesn't do anything on Amiri. > In my TL 2011:
ls /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/amiri/ amiri-boldslanted.ttf amiri-bold.ttf amiri-regular.ttf amiri-slanted.ttf > Cocerning the X Series 2: Why isn't it shipped with Texlive? > Obviously because they are not on CTAN. This is one of the basic rules. I hope that SIL font license is free enough. > bye > > Toscho > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
