On 27 June 2010 11:44, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > 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? >
I apologize I overlooked things a bit after retesting 2 identical *truetype* fonts do not cause any problems either. I tried the scenario of one *opentype* and another *truetype* it seems to work without any problems also :|! I am unable to reproduce the problem again now.... Regards, AKAL > > > 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 > -- Abdulrahman AAl Abdulsalam Assistant Lecturer - IT Department College of Applied Science P.O. Box 699 Nizwa, 611 Oman
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