[XeTeX] Scheherazade not rendering properly with XeTeX

Wed Sep 9 14:51:18 CEST 2009

Version "This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.7 (MiKTeX 2.7)"

Here is a piece of the puzzle. When I delete the Scheherazade font
from c:\windows\fonts, and even restart the computer, the file
compiles without errors--with the corrupt output. If I change the
\font command to ScheherazadeBREAK, I get the font-not-found error. Is
there somewhere else that XeTeX is looking for fonts? Elsewhere on my
disk I have been modifying a copy of Scheherazade...

Adam

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:42 AM, <xetex-request at tug.org> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:44:02 +0430
> From: Adam Baker <adamb924 at gmail.com>
> To: xetex at tug.org
> Subject: [XeTeX] Scheherazade not rendering properly with XeTeX
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> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble with a simple XeTeX document. When I run XeTeX
> with the input below, I get a fine-looking line of connected Arabic.
> If I change the commented line to select Scheherezade instead of
> Lateef, the output I get includes a bunch of unconnected Arabic
> letters, spaced closely together, with many glyphs different from my
> (nonsensical) input. This is on Windows Vista, with both Scheherezade
> and Lateef copied directly from their zip files into C:\Windows\Fonts
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks,
> Adam
>
> % begin file
> %\font\sch="Scheherazade:script=arab" at 20pt
> \font\sch="Lateef:script=arab" at 20pt
> \sch
> ???????????
> \vfill\eject\bye
> % end file
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:23:25 +1000
> From: James Townshend <jamestownshend at me.com>
> To: xetex at tug.org
> Subject: [XeTeX] Fonts and Snow Leopard
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> Hello,
> I'm a relative novice in the field.
> Since updating to 10.6 my starting code for most documents
>                 %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>                 % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf
>                \usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
>                \setmainfont{Helvetica Neue Light}
> only produces text in pdf in helvetica. Switching to a serif font,
> still produces the same result.
> I reinstalled MacTeX2008 but the issue remains.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Many thanks,
> James Townshend
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:07:13 +0800
> From: "Diederick C. Niehorster" <dcnieho at gmail.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Fonts and Snow Leopard
> Message-ID:
>        <803fcee30909081907p77eaf0dcxb5453be7f884d6f4 at mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> What do you mean with it only produces text? You mean the font is wrong?
>
> Best,
> Dee
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:23 AM, James Townshend<jamestownshend at me.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm a relative novice in the field.
>> Since updating to 10.6 my starting code for most documents
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?\setmainfont{Helvetica Neue Light}
>> only produces text in pdf in helvetica. Switching to a serif font, still
>> produces the same result.
>> I reinstalled MacTeX2008 but the issue remains.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> Many thanks,
>> James Townshend
>>
>>
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 06:24:09 +0200
> From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek at etf.cuni.cz>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Scheherazade not rendering properly with XeTeX
> Message-ID: <20090909042409.GA26115 at ebed.etf.cuni.cz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:44:02PM +0430, Adam Baker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having trouble with a simple XeTeX document. When I run XeTeX
>> with the input below, I get a fine-looking line of connected Arabic.
>> If I change the commented line to select Scheherezade instead of
>> Lateef, the output I get includes a bunch of unconnected Arabic
>> letters, spaced closely together, with many glyphs different from my
>> (nonsensical) input. This is on Windows Vista, with both Scheherezade
>> and Lateef copied directly from their zip files into C:\Windows\Fonts
>>
>> Any help appreciated. Thanks,
>> Adam
>>
>> % begin file
>> %\font\sch="Scheherazade:script=arab" at 20pt
>> \font\sch="Lateef:script=arab" at 20pt
>> \sch
>> ???????????
>> \vfill\eject\bye
>> % end file
>
> Works for me OK. (I'm using Linux, XeTeX 0.999.7)
> What version of XeTeX do you use?
>
> P.T.
>
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> Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:12:29 +0100
> From: "John Was" <john.was at ntlworld.com>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
>        <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Scheherazade not rendering properly with XeTeX
> Message-ID: <9A15A694F6A34A30A78F55CB6638E12F at novatech>
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>        reply-type=original
>
> Hello  Adam
>
> It should work (fingers crossed) if you put
>
> \TeXXeTstate=1
>
> before you type any Arabic, and you might also try putting \beginR before
> your Arabic and \endR \par after it.
>
> I'm hoping to avoid Windows Vista altogether though I don't suppose things
> will get any easier with Windows 7...
>
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Baker" <adamb924 at gmail.com>
> To: <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:14 PM
> Subject: [XeTeX] Scheherazade not rendering properly with XeTeX
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble with a simple XeTeX document. When I run XeTeX
> with the input below, I get a fine-looking line of connected Arabic.
> If I change the commented line to select Scheherezade instead of
> Lateef, the output I get includes a bunch of unconnected Arabic
> letters, spaced closely together, with many glyphs different from my
> (nonsensical) input. This is on Windows Vista, with both Scheherezade
> and Lateef copied directly from their zip files into C:\Windows\Fonts
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks,
> Adam
>
> % begin file
> %\font\sch="Scheherazade:script=arab" at 20pt
> \font\sch="Lateef:script=arab" at 20pt
> \sch
> ???????????
> \vfill\eject\bye
> % end file
>
>
>
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