Oriental TeX: Culturally authentic typesetting of the Qur'an

River Valley TV

Hamid, Idris

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Title of Series

The 31st Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group (TUG 2010)

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Number of Parts

Author

Hamid, Idris

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CC Attribution - NoDerivatives 2.0 UK: England & Wales:
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10.5446/30864 (DOI)

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River Valley TV

Release Date

2012

Language

English

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San Francisco, California, USA

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Computer Science

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Conference/Talk

Abstract

After years of research, the Oriental TeX Project can proudly announce that it is closing in on the holy grail of paragraph-based Arabic typography. We illustrate this by demonstrating the typesetting of the Qur’an in LuaTeX and ConTeXt MKIV.