From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38915 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:59:47 +0100 Message-ID: <47A252E3.9010606@wxs.nl> References: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> <47D39AB3-A934-4BF0-8A3A-2A1AADAD90EC@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201820606 16341 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 23:03:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:03:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 01 00:03:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKiRU-0003ZX-8U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:03:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317361FBC9; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:03:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11795-02-5; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:02:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172EA1FBDB; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:02:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3148F1FBDB for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:02:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10041-03 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:01:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9431FBD5 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 7880 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:28 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:38915 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:45 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________