<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 June 2010 11:44, Khaled Hosny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khaledhosny@eglug.org">khaledhosny@eglug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:58:20AM +0400, Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm wrote:<br>
> I can confirm the following behaviour with XeteX:<br>
> 2 identical truetype fonts (one in texmf tree and the other in system folder)<br>
> causes problems with rendering.<br>
> However, 2 identical opentype fonts seems to work fine without any rendering<br>
> problems.<br>
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</div>Are you sure you only have truetype and no opentype version installed<br>
when you get this issue?<br></blockquote><div><br>I apologize I overlooked things a bit after retesting 2 identical *truetype* fonts do not cause any problems either. I tried the scenario of one *opentype* and another *truetype* it seems to work without any problems also :|!<br>
<br>I am unable to reproduce the problem again now....<br><br>Regards,<br>AKAL<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> Basically, I had the file originally opentype which while fiddling around I<br>
> converted to truetype copied it to both texmf tree and system folder (/usr/<br>
> share/fonts/ under ubuntu linux) and I got the rendering problem.<br>
><br>
> Another issue with truetype font is that I get isolated letters instead of the<br>
> correctly connected ones (this is true also for the Scheherazade font). I must<br>
> be missing something when I say?<br>
> \font\test="Scheherazade"<br>
> \test ......<br>
<br>
</div>You have to select Arabic script, as mentioned before in this thread:<br>
<br>
\font\test="Scheherazade:script=arab"<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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--<br>
Khaled Hosny<br>
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team<br>
Free font developer<br>
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