[be] Rendering in Farsi using XeTeX (was: Bibledit-general Digest, Vol 22, Issue 9)

[Dennis Drescher]

Hi,

I've never typeset Farsi but I'm wondering if the font you are using has 
special rendering features like fond in Graphite, AAT, or OpenType 
fonts. This would cause the glyphes to not be placed correctly. We have 
a lot of that here but we use mainly only in Graphite. To "turn on" 
automatic rendering features in TeX/XeTeX for a Graphite font you would 
do something like this where you define your font:

\def\regular{"[../Fonts/Padauk/Padauk.ttf]/GR:language=kyu:mapping=../Fonts/kye_renumber"}

That is the font definition for a job I recently did where we needed 
number mapping and special rendering features for that particular 
language. The important part is the "/GR" That is what turns on the 
rendering we need. Perhaps this is what you need?

Hope this helps.

In Him,

Dennis


Kim Blewett wrote:
> I think the Farsi font contains medial and final glyphs for each letter; 
> this PDF displays every letter's word-final glyph, rather than the 
> characters in each word being joined using the medial glyphs, as in 
> Latin "cursive" script.
>
> Kim
>
> Pooyan Mehrshahi wrote:
> > Dear Teus,
> >
> > Thanks for the file. 
> >
> > Everything looks OK except the way each letter appears. The letters 
> > appear disjointed, i.e. instead of being joined together, they appear 
> > separately. If that is resolved then as far as I can see everything 
> > should be fine.
> >
> > I am very grateful for your efforts in correcting the problem.
> >
> > Every blessing,
> > Pooyan
> >
> >     Hi Pooyan,
> >
> >     There is a Farsi pdf file available at
> >     http://filebin.ca/adxsg/farsi.pdf.
> >
> >     It was created throught the ptx2pdf macros and XeTeX.
> >
> >     How does that one look? Are there still problems in it, and if
> >     yes, what
> >     are the problems?
> >
> >     Teus.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 16:07 +0000, Pooyan Mehrshahi wrote:
> >     > Dear Teus,
> >     >
> >     > Thank you very much for your hard work. However as I have tried
> >     the BE
> >     > 4.0.25 and printed using the ptx2pdf I see a number of problems.
> >     >
> >     >      1. All the Farsi letters are printed by themselves, and not as
> >     >         joint letters to make up words.  This means that the letters
> >     >         do not make much sense. The internal way of printing
> >     does not
> >     >         give this problem.
> >     >      2. The main chapter number is in Latin format.
> >     >      3. The page heading and number is in latin, and a box appears
> >     >         instead of "-" dash to separate between the verse numbers.
> >     >         However the order of the chapter and verses are correct.
> >     > But one problem is resolve and that is now there are no more clashes
> >     > between the references and the footnotes.
> >     >
> >     > I am very sorry for giving you more work. May I add this to the bug
> >     > record online.
> >     >
> >     > Warmest regards,
> >     > Pooyan