Re: Example for Persian

["Behnam Tabatabai" <behnam.tabatabai@i-one.at>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> At 04:08 PM 9/18/00 CEST, Behnam Tabatabai wrote:
> 
> >Well, this example was a more or less brute force hack for getting Farsi
> >with the help of Omega primitives. Relying on these Omega features
> >(direction switching commands and OTP's) do you see any chances for a more
> >structured support in future versions of Context (e.g., a "lang-far.tex")?
> 
> Sure, but for that you should provide me with a detailed list of what I
> need to get farsi runnung and where i can fetch it: fonts, filters etc
> 
> Hans

Hi Hans!

All you need to run the example is Omega Verion 1.15, which you can
download from /CTAN/systems/omega at any CTAN, e.g.,
  http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/CTAN/systems/omega/

Here you find following files:

(1) README. This is a short description of direction commands (Version
1.10)
(2) omega-doc-1.8.tar.gz. This is the latest official the documentation
(Version 1.8!)
(3) omega-lib-1.15.tgz. This is the collection of fonts, OTP's, etc.
(4) torture.tex contains detailed information on Arabic/Farsi/...
support
(5) utf8.tgz is a sample document in Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian,
and Chinese
(6) web2c-7.3.1-omega-1.15.tgz contains the latest sources.

I have never built Omega from the sources (I don't have the know-how and
the means to do that). I use the binaries for version 1.11 which come as
an update for MiKTeX-1.20e together with the library 1.15, which I
downloaded from CTAN.

In my example I use "omarab", which is a 16-bit virtual font upon the
8-bit fonts "omsea1", "omsea2", and "omsea3". Further I use the filters
"inutf8", "uni2cuni", and "cuni2oar". All these are part of the official
Omega distribution and are included in omega-lib-1.15.tgz. The only
self-made filter I use is "FarsiToArab.otp" to work around the problem
with "Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh".

Please note that Omega produces 16-bit dvi-files. Therefore you must use
"odvips", "oxdvi", etc. instead of dvips, xdvi, ... For previewing I use
the MiKTeX previewer "yap" which seems to have no problems with the
16-bit dvi-files of Omega.

Regards,
Behnam