From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18012 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Ermers Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Russia (cyrillic letters) Arabic] Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:05:41 +0100 Message-ID: <41FA1C85.6010900@hccnet.nl> Reply-To: r.ermers@hccnet.nl, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106910223 6366 80.91.229.6 (28 Jan 2005 11:03:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 28 12:03:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuTuT-0008IL-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:03:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C6127C1; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:03:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27549-02; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:03:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637A31277F; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:58:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFDB1277F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:58:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27194-04 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:58:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hnexfe11.hetnet.nl (hnexfe11.hetnet.nl [195.121.6.177]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3B81277E for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:58:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([81.206.233.107]) by hnexfe11.hetnet.nl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6874); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:58:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jan 2005 10:58:36.0950 (UTC) FILETIME=[5139CB60:01C50528] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18012 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18012 > Rob Ermers wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would be interested in a solution for Arabic... Presently \ works, but otherwise support for Arabic (\startarabic) is not optimal. If one of you could make a set-up for that too ... > > > > arabic a bit more tricky since it has those ligatures, so that needs aleph or arabtex > > (of course we can make an encoding with named glyphs) > > Hans > That would be great! The number of ligatures is limited, however. Arabtex in fact has more than strictly necessary. However, I never got omega running, in spite of my attempts. By the way, be aware that Hebrew may not have ligatures, but it does have some characters whose shape changes when they appear at the word ending, so, e.g., -n is not the same character code as n- or -n-. You should also take in account that people will want to use dotted consonants, i.e. the dots that distinguish b from v, and s from sh, etc. Robert