On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Burak Emir wrote:
Let me ask another question then: once luatex works, how can I make use of the ttf font? I suppose it is not as simple as copying it in the fonts/truetype directory and running mktexlsr?
Yes, you only need to copy the font to fonts/truetype or fonts/opentype (but use some subfolders) or set export OSFONTSDIR=/path/to/your/fonts and run luatoos --generate which is the mkiv equivalent of mktexlsr (not even sure if that's still needed). Afterwards, you can use the font with \font\a="font name" \a but you probably need arabic features (and high-level interface is preferred). \definefontsynonym[myfont][name:Name of Your Font][features=default] but probably not default for Arabic. I let Idris answer that question.
I had a glance at the mfonts.pdf manual, and I already installed FontForge aka pfaedit, but I do not know yet how it all plays together.
You don't need any of it. Mojca