Hello, Pierre-Jean <li...@utroff.org> wrote: > kaddour kardio <kaddourkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi i am quiet a newbie in utroff/neatroff typesetting systems, i use LaTeX > > daily in my archlinux based laptop. > > Do Farsi settings sufficient to typeset arabic texts( via init_fa), or > > should i create a init_ar config file?. > > I can't help much about neatroff, but I believe I should clarify this: > I wrote on this list that I aimed to port utroff to neatroff, but > that's a long term project, and currently, utroff macros can't be used > with neatroff. > > And unfortunately, I don't know neatroff and arabic languages well > enough to may answer easily your question. But as far as I understand, > you're refering to the 'make init_fa' target of the neatroff_make > package. This target installs a farsi font and the farsi/arabic > shaping pre-processor for neatroff. So, to typeset arabic texts, you > probably also need to install manually a proper arabic font.
Right. > To do so, put the font in the 'font' subdirectory, and run './fonts.sh' > from there. After copying the fonts into the fonts/ directory, you can update the neat target to generate Neatroff font descriptions: $ make neat However, I think the default Farsi fonts include all required Arabic glyphs. To enable specific OpenType features consult http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf Also, you can use -mfa macro package (see tmac/tmac.fa). Try editing demo_fa/fa.ms and check fa.pdf. Please report if there is a problem. Ali
