From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2754 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Behnam Tabatabai" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Example for Persian Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:56:56 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <39C67388.B404F62A@i-one.at> References: <3.0.6.32.20000918170824.0179bc80@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393530 11572 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2754 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