Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread FC
Dear Nathan, After compiling your example on TL 2014 and TL 2015 with the Scheherazade font, I saw absolutely *no* difference between them, which is what should be expected. Then I immediately realized why you're having this problem. In your example, you define \A as \textarabic. But since the pac

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread FC
Dear Nathan, I would be happy to help you debug this very strange behaviour. I will contact you off-list. But first I need to install TL 2015 to a separate virtual machine (as I am still using TL 2014). BTW the utf mode does a little more than you think (it loads a mapping from Latin to Arabic for

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Zdenek Wagner
As a free font I would suggest Sheherezade from SIL. My knowledge of arabic is nearly zero, I only know a little urdu so I can recognize the characters but know nothing about grammar. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2015-07-31 13:01 GMT+02:00 U

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:19:15 +0900 schrieb Nathan Camillo Sidoli: > Here is a minimal example: Not really minimal. I don't know arabic and so even don't know where to look at and decide if something is missing. Try to make an example that use only one or two input chars. If possible enter as asc

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Akira Kakuto
Hi, The previous set up of arabxetex compiled with TeXlive 2014 handled this situation fine, but for some reason it is not working with TeXLive 2015. The arabxetex is not changed. Also I think that TECkit is not changed. I don't understand anything about the problem, but note that the xelatex

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Nathan Camillo Sidoli
On 7/31/15 4:45 PM, Akira Kakuto wrote: Hi, Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, utf simply prints the text as it finds it, so the first part of my file (see below) appears as I intended to use \textarabic usually, and to use \textarabic[utf] when it is necessary. Best, Akira

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Akira Kakuto
Hi, Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, utf simply prints the text as it finds it, so the first part of my file (see below) appears as I intended to use \textarabic usually, and to use \textarabic[utf] when it is necessary. Best, Akira ---

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-31 Thread Nathan Camillo Sidoli
On 7/31/15 1:26 PM, Akira Kakuto wrote: Hi, When I compile this document, a tanwin in the unicode input (etc., خطًا) is stripped out in the output. I don't know arabxetex, but I think \textarabic[utf]{Arabic in UTF-8} can be a solution in this case. That is, the option [utf] for the command