[XeTeX] xelatex not connecting letters in awami nastaliq font

[Kamal Abdali]

Thank you Lorna and Jonathan for solving the problem.

Jonathan, I almost always need fontspec options like
[Script=Arabic,Scale=xx,WordSpace=yy] because different nastaliq fonts seem
to have very different letter sizes and word spacing behaviors. Moreover,
for some reason the Noto Nastaliq Urdu font doesn't connect letters if the
Script=Arabic option is omitted.

Kamal Abdali

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 5:33 AM Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/02/2021 03:27, Lorna Evans wrote:
> > Awami Nastaliq is a Graphite font. In XeTeX you would need to say "Awami
> > Nastaliq/GR". I'm not sure if that syntax would work in XeLaTeX, but
> > somehow you have to indicate Graphite.
> >
>
> The xelatex/fontspec way to say this would be
>
>    \newfontfamily\urdufont[Renderer=Graphite]{Awami Nastaliq}
>
> (You might also want to add the option
>
>    \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=1
>
> to your document, for better word spacing results.)
>
> JK
>
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 6:24 PM Kamal Abdali <kabdali at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kabdali at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     XeLaTeX (in combination with Polyglossia) is not rendering the Awami
> >     Nastaliq font properly. The letters in this font are being displayed
> >     without being connected together. I haven't encountered this problem
> >     with any other nastaleeq font. Nor have I seen this problem when
> >     using Awami in word processors.
> >
> >     %demo.tex
> >     \documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
> >     \usepackage{polyglossia}
> >     \setmainlanguage{urdu}
> >     \newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic]{Awami Nastaliq}
> >     \newfontfamily\altnast[Script=Arabic]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq} % or
> >     any other nastaliq font
> >     \setlength\parindent{0pt}
> >     \begin{document}
> >     عوامی نستعلیق\\
> >     \altnast{جمیل نوری نستعلیق}
> >     \end{document}
> >
> >     demo.pdf attached.
> >
> >     Kamal Abdali
> >
>
>
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