<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 28 Jun 2007, at 3:55 pm, John Was wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Oops - seems I must still be doing something wrong. My input is:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\font\arabic = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at 12pt<BR>{\arabic<BR>فلقِنا [= شيخ من الصوفيّة وجماعة غُرَباء] في الطريق شيخاً من الحكماء يقال له أبو الحسن العامريّ ، وله كتابٌ في التصوُّف قد شَحَنَه بعِلمِنا وإشارتنا ، وكان من الجَوَّالين الذين نَقَّبوا في البلاد واطّلعوا على أسرار الله في العباد ؛}\vfill \eject<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But my output is as per the attached PDF.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>According to Acrobat Reader, there's no Scheherazade in the PDF you attached, so I suspect that was an old version!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You will also want to use right-to-left directionality, via the \beginR (and \endR, if necessary) control sequences; set \TeXXeTstate=1 to enable these. (This is a standard e-TeX feature, still used in XeTeX.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Look at the ArabicOpenType.tex sample from the Sample Files download (see the xetex web site) as a starting point, to see how that configures things.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>JK</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>