[XeTeX] a problem using XeTeX with a TrueType font

Ali Majdzadeh ali.majdzadeh at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 12:54:33 CET 2007


Mostafa,
I faced the same problem using IranNastaliq font on Linux.

Regards
Ali

2007/11/28, Ali Majdzadeh <ali.majdzadeh at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello Mostafa
> I read your post. Just let me test the Nastaligh font on Linux. I will
> post the results.
>
> Best Regards
> Ali
>
> 2007/11/28, Mostafa Vahedi <vahedi58 at yahoo.com>:
> >
> > I would like to know whether somebody is looking at this problem!?
> > Mostafa
> >
> > *Mostafa Vahedi < vahedi58 at yahoo.com>* wrote:
> >
> > There is a free "TrueType Open" font called IranNastaliq.ttf that you
> > can download
> > from here: http://people.cs.uu.nl/vahedi/IranNastaliq.zip  (It contains
> > the glyphs of
> > the Right-to-Left languages Arabic and Persian, 490KB).
> > I have no problem using this font with Notepad.exe in Microsoft Windows
> > XP. But
> > when I use it with XeTeX I face a small problem in ligature. You can see
> > the
> > output I got from XeTeX here: http://people.cs.uu.nl/vahedi/test.pdf (in
> > PDF format
> > 9KB) and the output from Notepad.exe here:
> > http://people.cs.uu.nl/vahedi/word.jpg (in JPG format 2KB). As you see
> > the
> > glyphs are not connected together in the former case (and they should be
> > connected like the later case). Is this a bug of the font or a bug of
> > XeTeX?
> >
> > You can also see the TeX source file here: http://people.cs.uu.nl/vahedi/test.tex
> >
> >
> > I am using XeTeX version 3.141592-2.2-0.997 that comes with MiKTeX
> > 2.7-beta-5
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mostafa
> >
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