Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Kamal Abdali
Hi Manuel, I tried your file and it worked as expected. Attached is the resulting pdf. I think that for default font lookup any downloaded fonts should be copied into either /Library/Fonts or ~/Library/Fonts. FontBook "installs" fonts in the latter directory. But "font installation" is nothing mo

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.04.2010 um 18:28 schrieb Gareth Hughes: Has anyone yet mentioned that the Script feature automatically selects the ICU renderer? Yes, this has been mentioned more than once here, but not yet in this thread. Since XeTeX provides more than just two font renderers it would not make it

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Gareth Hughes
Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > 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 Scheheraza

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > 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. >

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.04.2010 um 08:47 schrieb Manuel Souto Pico: 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). Two mistakes: don't copy, and don't copy into the system's own "private" area

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:47:38 +0200 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.

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread 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 com

[XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-28 Thread 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.