<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello Nathan,<br></div>Someone asked me privately about this recently and I therefore found your question to the XeTeX mailing list from last April only now. Obviously ArabXeTeX is lacking a package option to influence this behavior. I have been inactive in this respect for the past 5 years, and this is no longer totally fresh in my mind, but I am confident I can provide a patch later this week that I will pass on to the current maintainer. For backwards-compatibility the current behavior should probably remain the default, even though ArabXeTeX aims to be as compatible as possible to the original ArabTeX behavior. Opinion?<br></div>Regards,<br></div>François Charette<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-24 11:11 GMT+02:00 Nathan Camillo Sidoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sidoli@waseda.jp" target="_blank">sidoli@waseda.jp</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a question about the placement of tanwin for indefinite accusatives in arabxetex. (And a related question for Amiri font.)<br>
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My understanding in that the preferred style in Arabic is that the tanwin should be placed over the final consonant, even if there is a final alif.<br>
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This was the default in the original ArabTeX, and could be turned off with \newtanwin.<br>
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Here is a minimal example (minimal_tanwin.pdf):<br>
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\documentclass{article}<br>
\usepackage{arabtex}<br>
\vocalize<br>
<br>
\begin{document}<br>
<br>
\<_h.taN> $\quad$ \<m_tl_taN><br>
<br>
\end{document}<br>
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But with arabxetex this seems not to be the default, and instead I get the tanwin above the final alif, as is done in Persian.<br>
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Here is an example (minimal_tanwin_xelatex.tex), which also shows how the placement can be done manually with unicode:<br>
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\documentclass{article}<br>
<br>
\usepackage[novoc,fdf2noalif]{arabxetex}<br>
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4]{Amiri}<br>
\newcommand{\A}{\textarabic}<br>
<br>
\begin{document}<br>
<br>
\A{_h.t"aN} $\quad$ \A{m_tl_t"aN}<br>
<br>
\bigskip<br>
<br>
\A{خطًا} $\quad$ \A{مثلثًا}<br>
<br>
\end{document}<br>
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How can I get the correct Arabic behavior with arabxetex? Also, why is the tanwin placed so high when I use unicode and Amiri? Is there a way I can pull it down closer to the consonant?<br>
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