XeLaTeX (in combination with Polyglossia) is not rendering the Awami Nastaliq font properly. The letters in this font are being displayed without being connected together. I haven't encountered this problem with any other nastaleeq font. Nor have I seen this problem when using Awami in word processors.
%demo.tex \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{urdu} \newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic]{Awami Nastaliq} \newfontfamily\altnast[Script=Arabic]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq} % or any other nastaliq font \setlength\parindent{0pt} \begin{document} عوامی نستعلیق\\ \altnast{جمیل نوری نستعلیق} \end{document} demo.pdf attached. Kamal Abdali
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