From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mixed English and Arabic using Simplefonts?
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:25:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101002092512.GA1986@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F00641B-254B-477C-97DC-355C704CD410@gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 02.10.2010 um 02:16 schrieb Talal Al-Azem:
>
> > My apologies if I'm dumbing down the level of discussion here. But I'm trying to get my head around fonts and bidirectionality using ConTeXt MkIV (as a rather unsophisticated user, not as a developer).
> >
> > To begin with, since it's all bit much at once, I'm trying to use simplefonts. I am unclear how to establish English as my language and its font as my main font (using the default font), and Arabic as a secondary language (using Scheherazade).
> >
> > What would I change in the ara-sty environment found on wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew? Or, if I don't need to use this, should I define my own macro in my tex document for directionality?
> >
> > I'm probably making a mess of some basic things here, but could use some help. I have working familiarity with Fontspec over on the XeLaTeX side of things, but the sparse documentation of simplefonts is leading to my uncertainty as how to proceed.
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
>
> %\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
> \setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
I think there is no need for presentation forms, they are deprecated
symbols not used for entering text.
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-02 0:16 Talal Al-Azem
2010-10-02 4:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-02 9:25 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1.1286013601.1742.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2010-10-02 16:34 ` Talal Al-Azem
2010-10-02 17:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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