From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2734 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Building format with TeX [and Omega] Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:19:46 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000915121946.00794100@pop.wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393502 11307 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Behnam Tabatabai" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2734 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2734 At 11:47 AM 9/15/00 CEST, Behnam Tabatabai wrote: >Appropos Omega: >-------------- >I have already tried the Omega specific commands (direction switching >commands and OTP's) in some small Context documents and the results are very >good: I used the Omega commands "\pagedir TRT" etc. for right-to-left, as >well as a chain of OTP's for mapping from ISIRI (8-bit standard for Persian) >to Unicode, context analysis, etc., for some Persian text. I was very >impressed by the results! > >Unfortunately I know too little about Context/TeX to be able to set up by my >own a clean language environment for Farsi (and other right-to-left scripts >like Arabic and Hebrew) using these features. However if somebody starts >that, I would be very happy to contribute my part (at least to the language >specific issues). I can look into that if I have the resources (fonts and so). One thing to sort out [i did some experiments with etex] is to get color things and so right, due to special swapping. No big deal, once i know the problems at hand. Where can I find the (really) latest omega specs? [since i also want to look into the tex->xml part] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------