text fragments in arabic

["R. Ermers" <r.ermers@hccnet.nl>]

Dear all,

I have some fragments of Arabic in my dutch context document (mkiv). I tried the  environment ara-sty on the wiki, but Context halts at  \setcharactermirroring[1]

Then I found in an e-mail on the internet the suggestion to give up on setcharactermirroring and use instead these instructions:

%\setupdirections[bidi=global] or
\setupdirections[bidi=local]

I replaced charactermirroring by \setupdirections[bidi=local] but there seems to be a problem with that too.

The environment ara-sty apparently interferes with the section headings in my document anyway, perhaps because it is designed for documents whose mainlanguage is Arabic. I found elaborate suggestions to typeset a 'hello' document in Arabic, but my document contains mixed text. (When I uncomment ara-sty, the document is typeset normally.)

Note that I have been typesetting Arabic texts in Latex (starting with ArabTeX)  and xelatex (unicode) for years now, but I expected that typesetting Arabic in Context / Luatex is more complicated.

Thus I have two questions:

1. which module should I load or which commands should I add to the preambule for typesetting Arabic,
2. how should I mark the Arabic fragments in my text? e.g. {\RT عقل}?

Thanks in advance!

Robert
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