On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:58:20AM +0400, Abdulrahman Al-Abdusalalm wrote: > I can confirm the following behaviour with XeteX: > 2 identical truetype fonts (one in texmf tree and the other in system folder) > causes problems with rendering. > However, 2 identical opentype fonts seems to work fine without any rendering > problems.
Are you sure you only have truetype and no opentype version installed when you get this issue? > Basically, I had the file originally opentype which while fiddling around I > converted to truetype copied it to both texmf tree and system folder (/usr/ > share/fonts/ under ubuntu linux) and I got the rendering problem. > > Another issue with truetype font is that I get isolated letters instead of the > correctly connected ones (this is true also for the Scheherazade font). I must > be missing something when I say? > \font\test="Scheherazade" > \test ...... You have to select Arabic script, as mentioned before in this thread: \font\test="Scheherazade:script=arab" -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex