2013/12/5 Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org>: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 12:31:58AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:42:21PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> >> Does XeLaTeX implement the Unicode BiDi algorithm? >> > >> > Short answer: no. >> > >> > I think sample documents (minimal working example) are needed for any >> > useful suggestion. >> >> >> Attached are the first 23 references from >> https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84#.D9.85.D8.B5.D8.A7.D8.AF.D8.B1 >> (the Arabic wikipedia article on Istanbul), as generated by my XeLaTeX >> formatter. >> >> Things to notice: >> 1) Unicode BiDi algorithm at work in web version in places like >> citation [1], "Statistics of the 2010 Turkey census". XeLaTeX renders >> this backwards. > > You need to explicitly markup LTR and RTL text, e.g. using polyglossia > or bidi. You need this to enable hyphenation as well, citations 12 and > 13 have very bad spacing because no hyphenation was enabled, for > example. I guess the tool that generates the TeX file will have to do > that. > >> 2) Broken italic for arabic in GNU freefont in citation [2]. >> (straightforward to fix) > > Please, please, please, never ever use GNU free font for Arabic; it is > the most hideous, crappy and useless un-Arabic font ever created, my > blood boils every time I see it in use. > Could you summarize what is wrong and report it? Steve White will certainly fix it (unless it is better toreplace the whole Arabic block). I see problems with dochachmee he, Urdu words as بھآرت and ؔٹھیک are not displayed properly. I plan to report it and scan samples from the Urdu-Hindi dictionary. (Two years ago Devanagari in FreeFont was terrible but with my reports and testing Steve created beautiful fonts.)
>> 3) Arabic comma instead of English comma in citation [23]. (in both >> web and XeLaTeX output) > > Bad input, the input has an Arabic comma, no tricks are done here. > > Regards, > Khaled > > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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