Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

[James Samir Ismail]

>  \markup { \override #'(font-name . "new font") "العربية" }
> 
> where "new font" is the name of the font to use.

This is what I tried, and got the same (wrong) result (Arabic characters not 
correctly displaying in their medial and initial forms):

\score 
{
        \relative d' 
        {
                c^\markup { \override #'(font-name . "Al Bayan") "العربية" } d 
e f g^\markup { "english" } f e d
        }
}

> To have a list of all available fonts on the operating system, type
> 
>  lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
> 
> in a terminal.

The name of the font I tried "Al Bayan" is Arabic, so I think this rules out 
font errors. I'm using a Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.6) and got the list of 
available fonts by pressing command-T (in something other than TeXShop) since 
executing the command above from within the Lilypond package 
(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin) didn't seem to work.


> But better is to read the "font" section of the notation reference manual.
> NR 1.8.3 Fonts
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/fonts.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Xavier
> 
> -- 
> Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>

I guess that this is a bug after all.  Is there anything further I should do to 
get this bug in the queue?


Thanks,
Samir