I am using the following line of code
(abc ÇÓÏ ÝÏ def) 1 ARABIC 0 SHMF , where
'abc' and 'def' are English alphabets, After the Arabic processor is applied and context analysis and glyph substitution is performed the output is not showing 'a' and 'd'. i.e. the 1st alphabet is missed. suggestions?. Thanks .


regads,

Did you also code a SETARB command and asociated English/Arabic fonts ?

Yes, I did. Please see my code below,

/F1 /TimesNewRoman 12.0 INDEXFONT
/F2 /TraditionalArabicBold 12.0 INDEXFONT

...................

BLACK SETTXC
ARB1256_1 ARB1256_M1 (F2) (F1) SETARB
/TraditionalArabicBold 12 SETFONT
(abc xxa xxb) 1 ARABIC 0 SHMF
PAGEBRK


Please consider xxa and xxb, written in arabic.

i.e.
BLACK SETTXC
ARB1256_1 ARB1256_M1 (F2) (F1) SETARB
/TraditionalArabicBold 12 SETFONT
(abc بيسب اس) 1 ARABIC 0 SHMF
PAGEBRK

Thanks,

For now it appears that only single byte font switches are supported (this is a bug that will be fixed in the next release).
The coding should be of the form:

/1 /TimesNewRoman 12.0 INDEXFONT
/2 /TraditionalArabicBold 12.0 INDEXFONT

BLACK SETTXC
ARB1256_1 ARB1256_M1 (2) (1) SETARB
/TraditionalArabicBold 12 SETFONT
(abc xxa xxb) 1 ARABIC 0 SHMF
PAGEBRK

Also the Arabic data must use Windows 1256 encoding.