From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41301 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: typesetting Arabic today Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:29:32 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806012329m686e4aa6n63552d59c3fac229@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212388368 17876 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2008 06:32:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:32:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 02 08:33:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K33bj-0000mj-NQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA401FCE3; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09051-08; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:32:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5845F1FC90; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:30:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68541FC66 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09051-03-3 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:29:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.158]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148C61FC98 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:29:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so788009ywm.74 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.218.10 with SMTP id q10mr3793714ybg.55.1212388172667; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:29:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41301 Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Burak Emir wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and > contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far. > > Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic. > > What would I use? > > I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some > presentations for LuaTeX and typesetting Arabic was mentioned there as > motivation. This is how I got to ConTeXt in the first place. Omega is dead or nearly dead and part of the code is integrated in LuaTeX. > Trying the documentation, I ended up on the following page which says "TODO" > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew > > I also searched mail archives, but the mails I found on this subject were > from 2003, so I thought it is worth probing for an update. > > Any news or hints appreciated. The MkIV manual [1] has a section about arabic, you try the following code with LuaTeX or XeTeX (should work). \definefontfeature [arab-default] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \definefont[ArabFont][arabtype*arab-default at 18pt] \starttext Normal text. {\ArabFont Your arabic text.} \stoptext arabtype in \definefont is the name of your font and you should replace it with one available on your system. [1] http://pragma-ade.nl/show-man-41.htm Greetings Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________