From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:59:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A252E3.9010606@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t5tgkbywnx1yh1@ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu>
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:45 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
> wrote:
>
>>>> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ??
>
>>> These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of
>>> Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv.
>> Hm, reminds me of conventions where you place currency symbols -
>> depending on if you live in a economist/accountant surrounding...
>>
>> Do you think some automated handling of such is possible at all?
>
> One can already handle this sort of thing using Omega Translation
> Processes, which luaTeX supports. For example, there is an otp which makes
> sure that numeral-strings are always treated as LR, otherwise 1234 would
> come out as 4321. I suppose translating these rules into lua and/or
> opentype rules should be easy...
i can add this to the arab analyzer (just inject direction nodes around
numbers)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 9:27 Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 12:44 ` Mr Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI
2008-01-31 15:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 15:48 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 15:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 20:25 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-01-31 22:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 22:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-01-31 22:35 ` Peter Münster
2008-01-31 22:42 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-31 23:11 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 2:50 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-01 9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-02-01 7:07 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 11:15 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-02-01 12:14 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 14:32 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-08 9:12 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-01-31 23:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 9:06 ` Hans Hagen
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