<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Normally any letter that gets joined to the next letter in a word does so whether or not it bears a diacritic. But Tex Live 2013 on SUSE Linux is causing such a letter to be printed in its independent rather than connected form when there is a diacritic on it. This is my first attempt to use xetex on a Linux machine to process a document in the Arabic script. I have never seen such an error on Windows or MacOS. <br><br>If this forum is not the right place to report the problem, perhaps some member can kindly direct me to the proper place. An example is the following:<br>=========<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">%xelatex<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\documentclass{minimal}</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\usepackage{fontspec,bidi}</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\newfontfamily\a[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\begin{document}</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\setRTL </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\a</p>
<p dir="rtl" style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">قلم قَلَم قلَم قندیل قِندِیل قلوب قُلُوب قُلوب</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">\end{document}</p>========<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The TeX output is equivalent to:<br>========<br><div style="text-align:right">قلم قَ لَ م قلَ م قندیل قِ ندِیل قلوب قُ لُ وب قُ لوب<br></div>========<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kamal Abdali<br></div></div>