Hi, there is a new alpha; this one reports (for certain features) if characters are missing in a font (which is the case in the reported farsi font) there are two experimental tricks: \checkcharactersinfont \removemissingcharacters these force an extra pass over the nodelist for checking (just after the fallback pass) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------