[XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

[Jens Bakker]

Dear Manuel Pico,

Possibly you could try to install the font Scheherazade-AAT with font  
book, so that it will appear in the list of fonts, that are is extant  
in the different applications. Or may be that it works, if you delete  
the option Script=Arabic from the \newfontfamily\arabicfont command,  
if you choose to use Scheherazade-AAT, Al Bayan, Geeza Pro or Times  
New Roman. Then the Arabic characters should be connected with each  
other correctly.
You could also install Scheherazade (without AAT) with font book, and  
then include the option Script=Arabic in the \newfontfamily\arabicfont  
command as you did.

With best regards,
Jens Bakker


Am 29.04.2010 um 08:47 schrieb Manuel Souto Pico:

> Dear all,
>
> After migranting to a new machine and copying all files and installing
> Tex Live again, I find that when I try to typeset (in
> TexShop) some documents that I had in Arabic, ligatures stop working.
> I use Mac OS X 10.6.3.
>
> The font I use is Scheherazade. I copied the file
> ScheherazadeRegAAT.ttf in /System/Library/Fonts (although it doesn't
> appear in the Font Book, I don't know why).
>
> My minimal example is:
>
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex-xdvipdfmx
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setmainlanguage{arabic}
> \setotherlanguage{galician}
> \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Scale=1.5,Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}
>
> \title{السلام عليكم}
>
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> وعليكم السلام
> \end{document}
>
> and the log says:
>
> (...)
> ! Font \@tempfontb=Scheherazade/ICU at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric
> (TFM) file or installed font not found.
>
> and something else but I can't copy and paste. In any case, the
> document is not compiled.
>
> If I replace Scheherazade with Scheherazade-AAT or with other fonts
> (Times New Roman, Geeza Pro, etc.), the document is compiled but the
> ligatures don't work.
>
> Has anyone had this issue? Any clue about how to solve it? I probably
> need to teak some setting that I did long ago in my former computer.
>
> Cheers, Manuel
>
>
>
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