<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 28 Jun 2007, at 2:33 pm, John Was wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'm no Arabist but was asked to set a short passage from supplied Unicode input (which I think is correct: it shows up properly in the ugly but essentially reliable Arial Unicode), and I find that the resultant output has the letters given in their individual forms instead of changing depending on context. So I presume I have to do more than simply select a font that contains Unicode Arabic: can anyone advise on what the correct procedure is? Do I have to give some sort of option (introduced by a colon) after the fontname? I get the same result whether I use Times New Roman or Scheherazade OpenType (the Windows TTF version) - and also, interestingly, when I use Arial Unicode, though it shows up correctly in that font in BabelPad.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>To use an OpenType Arabic font, you need to activate the Arabic shaping engine. In raw xetex, you'd say something like</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> \font\x = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at 14pt .......</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and in xelatex with fontspec, you'd use</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> \setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(or similar options with \newfontfamily, etc.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>HTH,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>JK</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>