[XeTeX] Arabic in XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 28 Jun 2007, at 3:55 pm, John Was wrote:

> Oops - seems I must still be doing something wrong.  My input is:
>
> \font\arabic = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at  12pt
> {\arabic
> فلقِنا [= شيخ من الصوفيّة وجماعة  
> غُرَباء] في الطريق شيخاً من الحكماء  
> يقال له أبو الحسن العامريّ ، وله  
> كتابٌ في التصوُّف قد شَحَنَه  
> بعِلمِنا وإشارتنا ، وكان من  
> الجَوَّالين الذين نَقَّبوا في  
> البلاد واطّلعوا على أسرار الله في  
> العباد ؛}\vfill \eject
> But my output is as per the attached PDF.
>

According to Acrobat Reader, there's no Scheherazade in the PDF you  
attached, so I suspect that was an old version!

You will also want to use right-to-left directionality, via the  
\beginR (and \endR, if necessary) control sequences; set  
\TeXXeTstate=1 to enable these. (This is a standard e-TeX feature,  
still used in XeTeX.)

Look at the ArabicOpenType.tex sample from the Sample Files download  
(see the xetex web site) as a starting point, to see how that  
configures things.

JK

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