Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد < ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki wrote:

I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different

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TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated?

1. Mixed-up categories: Plain TeX is a macropackage, luaTeX is an engine.

No. It is not. When someone uses Plain TeX in an engine, he would say Plain TeX over the engine-name. It seems you know very little about Plain TeX.

2. Your question is way too general. You could use ArabTeX with the original TeX engine, and there are other systems out there too...

No. It seems you did not understand my question at all. If I wanted to use arabtex, I would not bother at all to write to this list.

3. For real-life 21'st century practical purposes (viz utf-8 + opentype) your choices are XeTeX and LuaTeX.

4. Without a more precise question I cannot really recommend which way to go from here.

This is a sample file, I am looking for. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \textdir TRT \pardir TRT \font\test=zar.ttf scaled\magstep0 هل انت کیقک؟ \end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But I do not know how to define the font so that Arabic alphabets are not isolated.