[XeTeX] ArabXeTeX: Alif Maqsura

[Ross Moore]

Hi Tilman, and Fr. Michael,

On 16/03/2009, at 1:08 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:

> Hi Tilman!
>
> I processed your samples ... and although I'm not really familiar with
> Arabic, the results were the same for me.

The attached image shows what I get, which seems not
to be in accord with your description. The visual
differences could be attributed to the different fonts
--- or is that little extra kink the "sukkun" to which
you refer?
Isn't sukkun (or sukun) the character  ْat Ux0652 ?

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>
> What version of xetex do you have --- or what TeX installation?
>

The first (upper) version uses  arabxetex  under

   This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.997 (Web2C 7.5.6)

with the  Scheherazade  font.


The 2nd (lower) uses  arabtex  under

   This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)

with  xnsh  font, and these package versions:

  arabtex.sty    2003/08/22  3.11 ArabTeX main module
  arabaux.sty    2003/05/21  3.11 auxiliary macros for ArabTeX
     acmd.sty    2003/08/20  3.11 Arabic command processing
   afonts.sty    1995/11/16  3.04 define Naskh font
  afonts2.sty    1998/10/19  3.10 define Naskh fonts for LaTeX2e
    ascan.sty    2003/08/22  3.11 standard ZDMG input encoding
   aparse.sty    2003/05/26  3.11 get syllables
   awrite.sty    2003/06/05  3.11 build output word
xarbsymb.sty    1998/07/15  3.07 symbolic output encoding
arabskel.sty    2000/06/04  3.10 character skeleton definitions
xarbskel.sty    1999/07/17  3.09 character skeleton definitions
   aboxes.sty    2003/05/28  3.11 build output boxes
arabtoks.sty    1999/07/17  3.09 ArabTeX CS token definitions
arabchrs.sty    1998/07/11  3.07 letter token definitions
    aligs.sty    2003/05/26  3.11 compute ligatures
  aoutput.sty    2000/06/04  3.10 build output lines
   abidir.sty    2003/08/22  3.11 bidirectional linebreaking
   atrans.sty    2003/06/14  3.11 generate the transliteration
   alatex.sty    2003/05/04  3.11 ArabTeX extensions for LaTeX
    afoot.sty    2003/05/12  3.11 ArabTeX footnotes
    abjad.sty    2003/04/26  3.11 abjad numerals
   apatch.sty    2006/07/02  3.11s last minute patches
   alists.sty    2003/04/26  3.11 inverted list macros
    asect.sty    2003/04/26  3.11 section macros for Arabic
    atabg.sty    1997/01/21  3.05 LaTeX tabbing macros for Arabic
   apatch.sty    2006/07/02  3.11s last minute patches

>
> fr. michael gilmary, mma


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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