[XeTeX] xetex arabic fonts issue

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm wrote:


> After running xetex on a document to test a new arabic opentype font I got
> a final pdf document with completely mixed up characters (brought from the
> wrong codepoints and with wrong positioning). You can inspect the output
> in the file attached. The source looks like:
>
> \TeXXeTstate=1
>   
>> \everypar={\setbox0=\lastbox \beginR \box0 }
>> %\input testfontavailability
>> %\font\taha="KFGQPCUthmanTahaNaskh:script=arab" at 14pt
>> \font\taha="KFGQPCUthmanTahaNaskh"
>> \taha
>> %\char"0628\char"0633\char"0645
>> %\vskip12pt
>> \centerline{\beginR
>> ��� ���� ������ ������
>> \endR}
>> ����� ��� �� �������� ������� ������� ��� ���� �������� ����� ���� ����
>> ��� ����� ��������
>> ��� ���
>> \bye
>>
>>     
>
> I will appreciate any kind suggestions?
>
>   


Hi Abdulrahman:

I'm not familiar with using XeTeX, but it looks like you've loaded the 
font *without* the script=arab (you have another line commented with 
that, but the one you're using doesn't).

HTH.




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fr. michael gilmary, mma

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