Nastaliq OpenType fonts typically use the GPOS LookupType 3 (cursive attachment), which is not supported by some of the more simple-minded OpenType Layout engines.
A. Sent from my mobile phone. On 02.08.2012, at 04:28, Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote: > On 8/1/2012 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> I remember specifically testing some Nastaliq fonts and Hans fixing some >> small issues I found, I just tested again now and IranNastaliq seems to >> work (my fork of Nafees Nastaleeq is broken though, but it uses an >> OpenType GDEF feature not supported by LuaTeX's font loader, so this is >> expected and not even Arabic specific). > > I'm interested in this. We have used Nafees Nastaleeq v1.2 (IIRC), and plan > to use it for Punjabi written in Shahmukhi. While this font works reasonably > well in XeTeX, there were a couple things we were bothered by. But it's been > awhile since we last used it, and we're not experts in this style of Arabic > script, so I can't remember the problems, nor would I be confident enough to > say much about them anyway. > > Have you written up your work on Nastaliq? > -- > Mike Maxwell > maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
