Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font
Rename the file to have a .ttf extension; it is and OpenType font with TrueType outlines and those usually have .ttf extension (though the spec says they can have .otf extension, ConTeXt does not handle this right now).
Regards, Khaled
Thanks Khaled, now it works, at least to some degree. I have still problems, which I dont have with MS Word, see this example: \definefont[amiri][file:UthmanTN1Ver10.ttf*arabic at 17 pt] \define[1]\Arab{\setupalign[r2l]\amiri#1} \starttext \Arab{ نَسْتَعِينُ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ } \stoptext The vocalisations are set wrong, see attachment. Specially with a final "nuun" there are problems. It is not a problem of the font, because in Word they are set correctly. Does this come from the extensions ConTeXt do not support, or is there an easy way to fix? Or asked more generally, if fixing is not possible: Do you know any font, which can correct handled by context, and is capable of typesetting quran? Thanks. Huseyin
On 5/8/2013 9:23 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote:
Rename the file to have a .ttf extension; it is and OpenType font with TrueType outlines and those usually have .ttf extension (though the spec says they can have .otf extension, ConTeXt does not handle this right now).
Regards, Khaled
Thanks Khaled, now it works, at least to some degree. I have still problems, which I dont have with MS Word, see this example:
\definefont[amiri][file:UthmanTN1Ver10.ttf*arabic at 17 pt] \define[1]\Arab{\setupalign[r2l]\amiri#1} \starttext \Arab{ نَسْتَعِينُ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ } \stoptext
The vocalisations are set wrong, see attachment. Specially with a final "nuun" there are problems. It is not a problem of the font, because in Word they are set correctly. Does this come from the extensions ConTeXt do not support, or is there an easy way to fix?
extensions? fonts have features and these prescribe the (in this case) positioning
Or asked more generally, if fixing is not possible: Do you know any font, which can correct handled by context, and is capable of typesetting quran?
seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context problem \definefontfeature % might move [somearabic] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, % liga=yes, calt=yes, mark=yes, mkmk=yes, curs=yes] \definefont[amiri][file:uthmantn1ver10.ttf*somearabic at 32pt] \setupalign[r2l] \starttext \amiri نَسْتَعِينُ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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