2012/2/25 Tobias Schoel <liesdieda...@googlemail.com>: > Hello to all, > > finally I have some Arabic text to typeset. Usually I skip the discussion on > this list, if non-latin scripts are involved, but now I need your help. > > The following minimal example: > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri} > \setromanfont{TeX Gyre Pagella} > \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri} > \usepackage{polyglossia} > \setmainlanguage{arabic} > \setotherlanguage{english} > > \begin{document} > \begin{Arabic}التصرف عند حدوث حريق و اخلاء المدرسة\end{Arabic} > > \begin{english}Hello, World!\end{english} > > \end{document} > > Why do I have to define \arabicfont by myself? Intuitively, this should be > done by fontspec if it detects, that the main font Amiri includes the Arabic > script. Which it does. > > If I comment it out, polyglossia complains, that the roman main font (Amiri) > does not support Arabic. Which it does. > > This seems to be a little weird. > That's because your main font is TeX Gyre Pagella, \setmainfont and \setromanfont are synonyms. Thus Amiri is not defined because you have immediatelly redefined the main font.
> Finally, a little question concerning Arabic typesetting in General: > > The above line in Arabic shall be a headline for instructions, so it should > be heavily emphasised. In Latin script, I would typeset it larger and with a > bold face. In Arabic, this seems to be wrong as the usual Arabic fonts don't > include bold faces. So how is heavy and attention drawing emphasis done in > Arabic script? > I have only one printed book in the Arabic script, it is Urdu-Hindi dictionary and the titles are typeset larger and in boldface. > Thanks > > Toscho > -- > Tobias Schoel > Europaschule Kairo > www.europaschulekairo.com > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex