<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>OK, there's maybe another way (maybe not related directly to XeLaTeX, so I apologize for off topic): is there a way to disable certain glyphs in a font using (Xe)LaTeX? In the font I'm using: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b>KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh font:</b></span><b> </b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278669544_1" style="color: rgb(54, 99, 136); "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/">http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/</a></span></span> there are glyphs buried deep in the file (at its end, 65545 and 65550, which, when removed, produced "correctly" positioned kasra and shadda, as well as
tanween-double kasra and shadda (i.e. kasra/double kasra went below the letter). However, although this font is free, no modifications are allowed to be done, so I'd rather simply disable those two glyphs if possible than removing them from the font using, e.g., fontforge (which, btw, returned some errors: wrong direction, missing points at extrema, too many points, bad glyph name).</div><div><br></div><div>Not to forget, thank you all for your suggestions. I tried them all, for some fonts using urdu and/or sindhi solved the problem, for some Vafa's code works fine, but this font is different.</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Vafa Khalighi
<vafakh84@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> xetex@tug.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, July 9, 2010 3:29:31 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [XeTeX] Position of kasra when used together with tashdid in Arabic<br></font><br>
<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>I was hoping someone knows of a <br>workaround or a hack which I can use with XeLaTeX to overcome this. Vafa <br>
provided a valuable code (thank you!) which works fine for some fonts, but, <br>unfortunately, not for this one :( If anyone has any suggestions, please, let me <br>know. Thanks.<br></pre></blockquote><div><br>I am not sure what kind of font you have but perhaps that is cursive. In that case you can try reducing horizontal spacing between appropriate letters until all letters are connected. You should instead, either if the font is open-source, change it for your own purpose, or use Khaled's suggestion about using luatex instead xetex. <br>
</div><br>-- <br>Best wishes,<br>Vafa Khalighi<br>
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