On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:31:18PM +0200, Volker Haas wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> is it possible to use a single font for multiple scripts with
> fontspec without doing any font switching or altering font features?
No, you have to define operate font instance with appropriate option for
each script.
> The below sample code fails (it renders, but either bengali, latin
> or arabic is not rendered correctly):
>
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Script=Bengali,Script=Latin,Script=Arabic]{FreeSerif}
> \begin{document}
> যুক্তব্যঞ্জন the 1. item العربية
> \end{document}
"Script" does not accept multiple arguments, so the above is the same as
just saying "Script=Arabic". Even if this worked, you still need to mark
each text to get proper hyphenation and directionality.
So, you have to define a new font family for each script, combine it
with hyphenation loading and switching, and/or direction setting. In
short, you should try polyglossia instead.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. The fontspec manual and a web search
> weren't helpful so far.
>
> On a side note: With the latest fontspec version (2.0c) the arabic
> script is used in the above example. When using fontspec 1.18 from
> texlive 2009 bengali is used.
It is likely related on how options are parsed.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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