From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13147 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris S Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:59:44 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <3F5E3F40.CD664DA8@lamar.colostate.edu> References: <7814046437.20030908164326@iol.it> <20030908100724.074c4d7a.wmcclain@salamander.com> <3F5DF59C.CB10633C@lamar.colostate.edu> <20030909132018.6e749568.wmcclain@salamander.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063141664 11054 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2003 21:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Sep 09 23:07:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wpiB-000586-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:07:43 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C06010B6E; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:07:40 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (mesa.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.130]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB38310B07 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:01:10 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA47042 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:01:08 -0600 Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h89KxjH810292 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:59:45 -0600 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: ishamid@colostate.edu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13147 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13147 Bill McClain wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 > Idris S Hamid wrote: > > > With an otp u can define > > the character sequence ".d" so that it always gives you \.d in the > > output. > > I know I could look this up, but briefly: > > (1) What's an otp? Here r the best sources on otp's: http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/roadmap/doc-1.12.ps http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/papers/tsukuba-arabic97.pdf The second one especially has examples, many of them language-neutral. > (2) Given a set of pfb and afm files (or a set of ttf files) how do I > define such things for Aleph? Not sure I understand this, but there is a way to prepare huge (i.e., >256-glyphs) fonts for use by Omega starting from the afm files. I actually documented this in detail some time ago; I have to search and find it... ...Ahh! I found it;-) http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html There is also a test file using Arabic script for those who wanted to try doing Arabic-script in ConTeXt/Gamma. Originally made for Omega1.15, it will work with eOmega/Aleph. Best wishes Idris