Selaam, On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:20 -0600, Burak Emir wrote: Here is what I did, in detail

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export OSFONTSDIR=/Users/buraq/Library/Fonts

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ls $OSFONTSDIR/arabtype.ttf

/Users/buraq/Library/Fonts/arabtype.ttf

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luatools --generate mtxrun --script font --reload texexec --luatex traditional_arabic-test.tex

... define font | font with name arabtype is not found define font | unknown font arabtype, loading aborted ! Font \TradArabic=arabtype*test2 at 28pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.

I'm curious, does it work if you put the font in the current directory?

Yes, this worked! : D What a pleasure to see the fruits of debugging. Shukran : ) Can one tell "luatools --generate" to see which path it picks up from OSFONTSDIR? There are some nice arabic fonts that come with Mac systems (or maybe, they came with the KeyNote or Pages, I don't know) Burak -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com