[tex-live] scheme modern

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:59:22PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2011/1/6 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> > Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > ...
> >> > But many people use XeTeX/LuaTeX in order to typeset Arabic and Asian
> >> > scripts. :)
> >>
> >> There is no usable (for modern engines) Arabic fonts in texlive AFAIK,
> >> so Arabic users are not losing that much (Also Arabic fonts tend to be
> >> small, < 100kb each). I doubt there is much usable CJK font either.
> >
> > do such (free) fonts exist?  if so, why not get them on ctan so they
> > _will_ appear in texlive in due course?
> >
> > it seems to me that we've quite a lot of "bits" of tex work for using
> > middle eastern and north african languages, but nothing to draw them
> > together.  it would be really pleasing if a focus could emerge, on
> > putting the pieces together for such potential users.
> >
> > however, what you say is (sadly) true just now
> >
> Libertine and Luxi (they come with Linux) contain both Arabic and
> Devanagari characters, I have not checked other script.

Neither have Arabic glyphs (and I doubt about Indic too), most likely
you are seeing substituted glyphs from other fonts.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer