Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-29 Thread James Samir Ismail
>> I tried this on 2.12.3-1 (MacOS 10.6) and 2.13.47 (MacOS 10.6). I >> see the same problem in both versions. > > The 2.14 release is coming soon (hopefully), and the current 2.13 > releases have beta status (more or less). Please use 2.13.47 and try > again whether you still experience problems

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-29 Thread James Samir Ismail
> Which version of LilyPond are you using? The 2.13 series has many, > many improvements in font/text handling that may not have been > backported to 2.12. I tried this on 2.12.3-1 (MacOS 10.6) and 2.13.47 (MacOS 10.6). I see the same problem in both versions. -Samir __

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-29 Thread James Samir Ismail
> The first thing to do is to run the specified command from a terminal > window: > > lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x > > You said before that "it didn't work". We don't know what that means, so we > can't help you. This is what it means: Zamzam:bin samir$ ./lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be more than happy to help out with testing. -Samir On 1/28/11, at 9:10 AM, James Samir Ismail wrote: >> I tried this: >> >> \relative c' { >> c4^\markup { \ov

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
> I tried this: > > \relative c' { >c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . "KacstOffice") > "العربية" } > d e f | >g^\markup { "english" } > f e d | > } > > and get the attached image as output, which seems to be correct > (please correct me if I'm wrong). This

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
> \markup { \override #'(font-name . "new font") "العربية" } > > where "new font" is the name of the font to use. This is what I tried, and got the same (wrong) result (Arabic characters not correctly displaying in their medial and initial forms): \score { \relative d' {