Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/9/2013 7:27 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: I uploaded a beta that might fix it, but it needs more testing. The issue might have been introduced when support was added for more complex ligature building, compare for instance this: Thanks Hans! Indeed, it was a fix, but there are still problems I fi

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-09 Thread H. Özoguz
I uploaded a beta that might fix it, but it needs more testing. The issue might have been introduced when support was added for more complex ligature building, compare for instance this: Thanks Hans! Indeed, it was a fix, but there are still problems I find in further testing, see attachment fo

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/9/2013 9:45 AM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: The font is fine with other OpenType engines as well, e.g. HarfBuzz, so it is probably a ConTeXt issue. Yes, the font is fine with OpenOffice, too. It would be really great, if this could be fixed in context, so one could typeset quran (and other traditio

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-09 Thread H. Özoguz
The font is fine with other OpenType engines as well, e.g. HarfBuzz, so it is probably a ConTeXt issue. Yes, the font is fine with OpenOffice, too. It would be really great, if this could be fixed in context, so one could typeset quran (and other traditional arabic) professionally. Would be ve

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:03:28PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5/8/2013 10:58 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: > >>seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context > >>problem > > > >Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated > >ligatures. So it has to do anything wi

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/8/2013 10:58 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context problem Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated ligatures. So it has to do anything with ConText, or not? Or maybe this font uses in some way properties of Word i

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread H. Özoguz
seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context problem Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated ligatures. So it has to do anything with ConText, or not? Or maybe this font uses in some way properties of Word in handling fonts? Huseyin Dokument

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/8/2013 9:23 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: Rename the file to have a .ttf extension; it is and OpenType font with TrueType outlines and those usually have .ttf extension (though the spec says they can have .otf extension, ConTeXt does not handle this right now). Regards, Khaled Thanks Khaled, now

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread H. Özoguz
Rename the file to have a .ttf extension; it is and OpenType font with TrueType outlines and those usually have .ttf extension (though the spec says they can have .otf extension, ConTeXt does not handle this right now). Regards, Khaled Thanks Khaled, now it works, at least to some degree. I hav

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:38:35PM +0200, "H. Özoguz" wrote: > Hoping to annoy not everybody here with my arabic-font-questions. > > I have found I nice free arabic ttf-font, you can download it here: > http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip. > > > One of

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread H. Özoguz
Sorry, Link corrected: http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@

[NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread H. Özoguz
Hoping to annoy not everybody here with my arabic-font-questions. I have found I nice free arabic ttf-font, you can download it here: http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip. One of its types is: "kfgqpcuthmantahanaskhregular" If I type in the cmd C:\