From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41024 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Arabic transliteration Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:13 +0200 Message-ID: <482A9505.3010509@wxs.nl> References: <626500D1-90F2-4A55-BF61-1F53074CD027@princeton.edu> <6faad9f00805131524n6809d7ect2e9969967d8d326a@mail.gmail.com> 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 1210750309 13721 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2008 07:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:31:49 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 14 09:32:22 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 1JwBTJ-0004u3-VZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:32:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22C01FC83; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:31:36 +0200 (CEST) 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 01477-06-5; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87381FC6F; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8D61FC6B for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:50 +0200 (CEST) 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 00686-04 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:14 +0200 (CEST) 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 418791FC6F for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 5951-1840426 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:12 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 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:41024 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:24:02 -0600, Mojca Miklavec > wrote: > >> I wanted to send you an example of how it can be done in different >> ways, but there seems to be in interesting problem with XeTeX at the >> moment, so I wasn't able to play with it. >> >> But in general: >> >> a) simply use character U+032E (combining breve below) >> It kind-of-works with LM, but not perfect (there has been some >> discussion about how to improve the behaviour of combining accents in >> LM) > > The big problem with macros for this sort of thing is getting the italics > right -- Arabic transliteration typically uses italics in running text. > The macro will have to be adjusted (or an italic parameter changed) for > every font. See \def\sh@ft on page 356 of the TeXBook. > > Anyway, the Unicode 1E00--FF block has most of these problematic chars, > and LM has incorporated the relevant ones. > > For other fonts, perhaps Hans could implement a combining command that > gives an italics parameter option, though that will differ for regular, > bold, etc... ah, you mean that the automatic combiner should adapt to italic/slant ... i need to look into it bold is no problem 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________