[XeTeX] ArabXeTeX pre-release

[Will Robertson]

On 30/11/2006, at 22:33 , Anas Ghrab wrote:

> On my OS X 10.4.8 I have :
> 1- Reinstalled TeX with Mactex
> 2- Put Arabxetex in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/
> 3- Made sudo mktexlsr

Better to use
   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/
or
   ~/Library/texmf/tex
because in the spot you put it, when you upgrade your distribution,  
ArabXeTeX will be erased.

> ! Font \zf at basefont=Scheherazade at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)
> file or i
> nstalled font not found.
> \zf at fontspec ...nt ="\zf at fontname " at \f at size pt

Do you have the Scheherazade font?
   <http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts>
Otherwise, you need to specify your own Arabic font...

Will