On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد < isha...@colostate.edu> wrote:
> Hi, > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki <ilda.kh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different >> TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for >> typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not >> isolated? >> > > 1. Mixed-up categories: Plain TeX is a macropackage, luaTeX is an engine. No. It is not. When someone uses Plain TeX in an engine, he would say Plain TeX over the engine-name. It seems you know very little about Plain TeX. > > > 2. Your question is way too general. You could use ArabTeX with the > original TeX engine, and there are other systems out there too... No. It seems you did not understand my question at all. If I wanted to use arabtex, I would not bother at all to write to this list. > > > 3. For real-life 21'st century practical purposes (viz utf-8 + opentype) > your choices are XeTeX and LuaTeX. > > 4. Without a more precise question I cannot really recommend which way to > go from here. This is a sample file, I am looking for. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \textdir TRT \pardir TRT \font\test=zar.ttf scaled\magstep0 هل انت کیقک؟ \end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But I do not know how to define the font so that Arabic alphabets are not isolated.
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