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This is Great! It worked w/ some minor tweaking in font selection since
it complained about the arabic and times font. That was easy to figure
out and fix.<br>
Now, for the next question: how do you change the font size, say, per
word, line, paragraph, etc. ? <br>
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Gareth Hughes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sargon Hasso wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Although I am not new to LaTeX, published my graduate thesis in LaTeX,
but I just recently stumbled on unicode support via xetex. I downloaded
MikTeX v. 2.7 (w/ xetex support for windows). So, first things first: I
tried to build the sample Arabic tex file (the closest to Syriac) that
came in the xetex sample documents but failed. Oh, I remember those days
when I had to chase down problems in LaTeX. I also tried to build a
sample file that uses standard ttf/otf directly and it worked fine.
However, the syriac and arabic text don't seem to be rendered correctly,
i.e. contextual shaping does not seem to be working. I know I am missing
something, but I don't know what. I am attaching a sample pdf so you can
see it. Perhaps, someone can show me a complete, albeit, simple tex file
that has one syriac line and one arabic line that demonstrates
typesetting syriac in xetex.
Regards,
Sargon
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Shlama Sargon!
I've attached a short XeLaTeX (that's LaTeX with XeTeX) input file with
its PDF output. I've been using XeLaTeX regularly for writing Syriac for
work. The Polyglossia package is handy for multilingual texts as it
provides some neat commands for switching fonts and directionality all
in one. Fontspec is the package that XeLaTeX uses for font commands.
Note, it's important to specify 'Script=Syriac', and so forth, for
cursive scripts so that the correct OpenType features for joining and
shaping are used. If you don't have the fonts I'm using, change the
definitions in the input file to fonts on your system.
Get in touch if there's anything that is unclear.
Gareth.
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