<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you Lorna and Jonathan for solving the problem. <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">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.</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">Kamal Abdali<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 5:33 AM Jonathan Kew <<a href="mailto:jfkthame@gmail.com">jfkthame@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 21/02/2021 03:27, Lorna Evans wrote:<br>
> Awami Nastaliq is a Graphite font. In XeTeX you would need to say "Awami <br>
> Nastaliq/GR". I'm not sure if that syntax would work in XeLaTeX, but <br>
> somehow you have to indicate Graphite.<br>
> <br>
<br>
The xelatex/fontspec way to say this would be<br>
<br>
\newfontfamily\urdufont[Renderer=Graphite]{Awami Nastaliq}<br>
<br>
(You might also want to add the option<br>
<br>
\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=1<br>
<br>
to your document, for better word spacing results.)<br>
<br>
JK<br>
<br>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 6:24 PM Kamal Abdali <<a href="mailto:kabdali@gmail.com" target="_blank">kabdali@gmail.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kabdali@gmail.com" target="_blank">kabdali@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> XeLaTeX (in combination with Polyglossia) is not rendering the Awami<br>
> Nastaliq font properly. The letters in this font are being displayed<br>
> without being connected together. I haven't encountered this problem<br>
> with any other nastaleeq font. Nor have I seen this problem when<br>
> using Awami in word processors.<br>
> <br>
> %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<br>
> 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>
> <br>
<br>
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