<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Nathan,<br><br></div>After compiling your example on TL 2014 and TL 2015 with the Scheherazade font, I saw absolutely <b>no</b> difference between them, which is what should be expected. Then I immediately realized why you're having this problem. In your example, you define \A as \textarabic. But since the package option is <b>novoc</b>, it is assumed to contain legacy ArabTeX ASCII notation, not UTF-8. The ArabXeTeX documentation says that to input direct UTF-8 you need to use the option <b>utf</b>. So if you use explicitly \textarab[<b>utf</b>]{خطًا} instead your tanwin will not disappear. In the novoc mode there is indeed a mapping rule which explicitly strips off all vowels (even from UTF-8 input).<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>François Charette<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-31 18:55 GMT+02:00 FC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:firmicus04@gmail.com" target="_blank">firmicus04@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Nathan,<br>I would be happy to help you debug this very strange behaviour. I will contact you off-list. But first I need to install TL 2015 to a separate virtual machine (as I am still using TL 2014).<br><br></div><div>BTW the utf mode does a little more than you think (it loads a mapping from Latin to Arabic for punctuation signs, so that e.g. U+002C becomes U+060C in the output), but anyway you are right: what you observe simply should not happen.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>François<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-31 13:08 GMT+02:00 Zdenek Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>As a free font I would suggest Sheherezade from SIL.<br><br></div>My knowledge of arabic is nearly zero, I only know a little urdu so I can recognize the characters but know nothing about grammar.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-31 13:01 GMT+02:00 Ulrike Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:news3@nililand.de" target="_blank">news3@nililand.de</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>Am Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:19:15 +0900 schrieb Nathan Camillo Sidoli:<br>
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</span>Not really minimal. I don't know arabic and so even don't know where<br>
to look at and decide if something is missing.<br>
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Try to make an example that use only one or two input chars. If<br>
possible enter as ascii with their unicode notation: ^^^^062e<br>
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And if possible use a free font and tell where to get it.<br>
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