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 Werner LEMBERG
>> 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. The 2.14 release is comin

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 Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > After further testing, I'm almost 100% sure that this problem can be > solved by upgrading Pango to the latest stable release (in GUB). > > Graham, would you be willing to bump Pango in GUB?  I've been running > Pango 1.28.3 with my self

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Samir Ismail wrote: >> 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. > > Which version of LilyPond are you using?  The 2.1

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Samir Ismail wrote: > 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. Hi, Which version of LilyPond are you using? The 2.13 series has many, many improvements in font/text handling t

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/28/11 2:03 PM, "James Samir Ismail" wrote: > 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. The first thing to do is to run the specified command from a terminal window: lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x You said be

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 { \override #'(font-name . "KacstOffice") >>"الع

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 Werner LEMBERG
> This is what I tried, and got the same (wrong) result (Arabic > characters not correctly displaying in their medial and initial > forms): I tried this: \relative c' { c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . "KacstOffice") "العربية" } d e f | g^\markup { "english"

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' {

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 January 2011 19:17, James Samir Ismail wrote: > > Xavier, > > I suspected that it could be a font problem, but as I'm new to > Lilypond, can you give me a snippet for changing the font? I'll try > to figure out a font that I know supports Arabic well, and test it > again. \markup { \overr

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 January 2011 18:30, James Bailey wrote: > > Looks like a bug to me. Maybe due to the font (character not available as it in LilyPond's default font). Samir, have you tried changing the font to use one that supports well arabic characters? Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer _

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-27 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, James Samir Ismail wrote: > Has anybody experienced a problem with getting Arabic text to display > correctly in their scores? Here's a > snippet that contains properly formatted UTF-8 Arabic: > > \score > { > \relative d' > { > c^\marku