<div dir="auto">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 6:24 PM Kamal Abdali <<a href="mailto:kabdali@gmail.com">kabdali@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">%demo.tex<br>\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}<br>\usepackage{polyglossia} <br>\setmainlanguage{urdu} <br>\newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic]{Awami Nastaliq}<br>\newfontfamily\altnast[Script=Arabic]{Jameel Noori Nastaleeq} % or any other nastaliq font<br>\setlength\parindent{0pt}<br>\begin{document}<br>عوامی نستعلیق\\<br>\altnast{جمیل نوری نستعلیق}<br>\end{document}<br><br>demo.pdf attached.<br><br>Kamal Abdali<br></div></div>
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