Nicholas, Thanks for testing the file. Another member, who wrote directly to me, also got correct output from TEX Live 2013 under a slightly older version of Open SUSE.
Not knowing what else to do, I uninstalled TeXLive 13 and installed TeXLive 14. The latter is not pre-packaged on Open SUSE 13.2, so I had to install it from the TeXLive 14 DVD. This was a desperate step, but that other version version of TeX did solve the problem. Incidentally, the TeX Live ISO doesn't contain a binary of Texworks for Linux. Open SUSE does, of course, have Texworks as a package. But in Open SUSE the package dependencies are such that when you ask it to install Texworks, it wants to install the whole TeXLive 13 again! So I had to download Texworks sources and make it from scratch. Thanks for your help. Kamal On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:47 PM, heer <[email protected]> wrote: > Kamal, > > I'm using Tex Live 2013 on Ubuntu 14.04 and your file works > perfectly. All the letters are properly connected. > > Nicholas > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Kamal Abdali wrote: > > Normally any letter that gets joined to the next letter in a word does so >> whether or not it bears a diacritic. But Tex Live 2013 on SUSE Linux is >> causing such a letter to be printed in its independent rather than >> connected >> form when there is a diacritic on it. This is my first attempt to use >> xetex >> on a Linux machine to process a document in the Arabic script. I have >> never >> seen such an error on Windows or MacOS. >> >> If this forum is not the right place to report the problem, perhaps some >> member can kindly direct me to the proper place. An example is the >> following: >> ========= >> %xelatex >> >> \documentclass{minimal} >> >> \usepackage{fontspec,bidi} >> >> \newfontfamily\a[Script=Arabic]{Amiri} >> >> \begin{document} >> >> \setRTL >> >> \a >> >> قلم قَلَم قلَم قندیل قِندِیل قلوب قُلُوب قُلوب >> >> \end{document} >> >> ======== >> The TeX output is equivalent to: >> ======== >> قلم قَ لَ م قلَ م قندیل قِ ندِیل قلوب قُ لُ وب قُ لوب >> ======== >> >> Kamal Abdali >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > >
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