Hello
I think the problem is probably the way you call the Arabic font (unless the
font itself is like a monospaced font with no ligature facililty - but that
seems unlikely). If you have Scheherazade, try the following (for use with
surrounding ten-point type: typically, for legibility an Arabic font will
have a larger pointsize than the surrounding roman text):
\font\uarabicten = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at 13pt
\let\arabic\uarabicten
Even if you don't have Scheherazade, this should work provided you remember
':script=arab' in calling the font, as above. If it doesn't work, I guess
you are using a font that doesn't have the appropriate feature installed,
and that might make it rather difficult to get a satisfactory result.
Scheherazade seems generally to win approval from those who know about such
things, though (not me), so it might be worth moving over to that (even as a
temporary measure to ensure that you get valid output).
Best
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "heer" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <[email protected]>
Sent: 22 December 2012 05:46
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX
John,
Your suggestion worked very well. Arabic words and letters now read from
right to left. However, the letters all appear as separate letters rather
than connected as they should be. Is there any way to correct that?
Nicholas
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, John Was wrote:
I'm not an Arabist but have occasionally had to typeset articles in plain
XeTex using Arabic, and all I have in my file header is:
\TeXXeTstate=1 % this turns e-TeX's bidi functionality on
\def\intextarab#1{{\arabic {\beginR #1\endR}}}
I define \arabic as a call to my Arabic font (the definition of \arabic
changes according to whether I'm in main text, footnote text, or extract
text). To achieve Arabic I just give \intextarab{ARABIC TEXT HERE}. That
works fine for bits of Arabic embedded in English (or other
left-to-right) text in the same paragraph. For separate Arabic
paragraphs you really just need
\beginR
and at the end
\endR
There are no doubt slicker ways of doing things, but that gave me good
output first time round so I stuck with it!
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "heer" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <[email protected]>
Sent: 21 December 2012 21:52
Subject: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX
Is there a bidi.sty file for plain XeTeX or only for XeLateX? I'd like
to be able to use Arabic script in plain XeTeX.
Nicholas
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