On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:59:22PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2011/1/6 Robin Fairbairns <[email protected]>: > > Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> 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 -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ Devnag-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general
