babel: Italic text within bold if using "bidi=basic-r" about latex2e

[FrankMittelbach]

@seloumi please keep the issue template structure intact (i.e., keep the headings). Also please provide the necessary data. There is a reason that one heading says:

Log (and possibly PDF) file

We do require the .log; only the pdf is optional not the other way around. This helps in identifying any issues with the setup.

[josephwright]

@FrankMittelbach I see the same effect: my log attached.
test.log

[eg9]

On 13 Jan 2018, at 20:50 , seloumi ***@***.***> wrote: Brief outline of the bug I'm trying to write arabic with babel (version 3.16). and I have troubles to write bold text, when using \bfseries part of bolded text appears also italic Your minimal example showing the bug \RequirePackage{latexbug} \documentclass{article} \usepackage[nil, bidi=basic-r]{babel} \babelprovide[import=ar, main]{arabic} \babelfont{rm}{Amiri} % arabic font \begin{document} {\bfseries\Large تجريب إمكانيات babel الجديدة لكتابة العربية } {\Large تجريب إمكانيات babel الجديدة لكتابة العربية } \end{document} Log (and possibly PDF) file test3.pdf <https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/files/1628697/test3.pdf> — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AASe9wTqlbolkTdqDygk7J0vRmkSmC27ks5tKQkJgaJpZM4RdWCN>.

If I change Amiri to Scheherazade, the problem doesn’t show up. Ciao Enrico

[josephwright]

@seloumi My suspicion is a font issue as @eg9 says: with \showoutput I get

....\TU/Amiri(1)/bx/n/14.4 b
....\TU/Amiri(1)/bx/n/14.4 a
....\TU/Amiri(1)/bx/n/14.4 b
....\TU/Amiri(1)/bx/n/14.4 e
....\TU/Amiri(1)/bx/n/14.4 l

i.e. babel is requesting a bold font, not a bold-italic one.

[jbezos]

Seems a bug in fontspec/luaotfload:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}

\begin{document}
\pardir TRT\textdir TRT

\textbf{إمكانيات}
\end{document}

[josephwright]

I think it's clear this is not a babel bug: most likely the font. I'll close on that basis.

[wspr]

If possible it would be better not to rely on luaotfload's auto-detection of shapes to find the bold version:

\setmainfont{amiri}[
  Script=Arabic,
  Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-regular,
  BoldFont=*-bold,
]

You could write an Amiri.fontspec file to hard-code this if it was a common font used by babel.

[khaledhosny]

@wspr would it be a good idea of the Amiri package on CTAN provided an Amiri.fontspec file?

[wspr]

@khaledhosny Sure! I haven't been reaching out to folks about doing this, but I think it would be a sensible approach. Are you familiar with how they're supposed to look?

[khaledhosny]

Not sure I remember the syntax (and I think it changed since I last tried it long ago), if you can give me a file that would be super awesome, otherwise I can always check the docs/source code and try.

[wspr]

This should be enough to get you started... not sure if Script=Arabic should be default or not and you might also want to add ItalicFont and BoldItalicFont. Note also that once amiri.fontspec exists it won't be regenerated, so edit the file directly after running the source below.

\begin{filecontents*}{amiri.fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures[amiri]{
  Script=Arabic,
  Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-regular,
  BoldFont=*-bold,
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{amiri}
\begin{document}
إمكانيات
\par
\textbf{إمكانيات}
\end{document}

[khaledhosny]

Thanks @wspr, I did this (using file names that match the current release), let me know if I did something wrong.

[jbezos]

Will, Sorry for the late answer.

You could write an |Amiri.fontspec| file to hard-code this if it was a common font used by babel.

I think Amiri is used very often, and even if not, it will for sure (it's a great font). Javier