[XeTeX] Colored Arabic in Tables

[Ross Moore]

Hello Tilman,

On 11/03/2009, at 4:59 AM, Tilman Hannemann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on rather complex project that involves mixed Arabic  
> and German text, tables, textboxes (with TikZ), and colored parts  
> inside the Arabic text. So far, colored Arabic looks really fine  
> thanks to the approach described in the bidi documentation.  
> However, I discovered that tabularx causes some unexpected problems  
> as I wanted to switch the vocalization modes of ArabXeTeX. (There  
> might be another problem with failing color definitions as well,  
> but in that case, I still have to figure out the culprit.) The  
> minimal example below shows how changing the color inside the  
> tabularx environment affects the subsequent behavior of ArabXeTeX  
> and of Arabic font mapping in general: In both cases, there should  
> be no sukkun above the ha', and frankly,

When I process your example, with

   This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.997 (Web2C 7.5.6)

all I get for the 'ha' and 'h' characters are the latin letters.

Ahah, here's the missing piece:

    Font mapping `arabtex-fdf2alif-fullvoc.tec' for font  
`Scheherazade' not found.

This wasn't in the  arabxetex.zip   distribution on CTAN.
Where can I get this module?
   (it's not at  http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK/ )


> I haven't the faintest idea of what is going here. So, I would be  
> glad if anyone could lead me in the right direction...

Without that .tec module, I don't think that I can help.


Cheers,

	Ross

>
> Tilman
>
> ---
>
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \newfontfamily{\arabicfont}[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.7]{Scheherazade}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
> \usepackage{arabxetex}
> \usepackage{tabularx}
> \newcommand{\colorred}[1]{{\addfontfeature{Color=FF00FF}#1}}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{X}
> \textarab[fullvoc]{\colorred{ha}}\\
> \end{tabularx}
>
> \textarab[novoc]{h}
>
> \textarabic{ه}
>
>
> \end{document}
>
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