[luatex] otf fonts (ligatures, cache, etc.)

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:14:56PM +1000, وفا خلیقی wrote:
> One Question: How do you define a font so that it supports arabic?
> 
> 
> i.e. \font\test1=file:AdobeArabic-Regular.ttf:?

\font\test1=file:AdobeArabic-Regular.ttf:mode=node;script=arab;language=ara;+init;+medi;+fina;+liga;+rlig;+mark;+mkmk

I think those are the essential features, but you man want to turn
on/off other features according to the font, also you can replace
the value of 'language=ara' with 'far', 'urd' etc. though it is unlikely
to make any difference with 99% of Arabic fonts, you can also use
'dflt'. Generally you have to experiment a bit with the font to get the
features you want.

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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