From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41803 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:52 +0200 Message-ID: <485C00BC.5050906@wxs.nl> References: <20080619230550.GA22913@khaled-laptop> <20080620151638.GB15208@khaled-laptop> <485BD43F.2000502@wxs.nl> <20080620175534.GA23756@khaled-laptop> 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 1213989172 30901 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 19:12:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:12:52 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 20 21:13:35 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 1K9m34-0001c7-Ee for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31FC1FC43; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:12:32 +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 17614-02-10; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED16A1FBCB; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437AF1FBC5 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:11:35 +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 17614-02-9 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:59 +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 29E3A1FBCB for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 14402-1840426 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:55 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <20080620175534.GA23756@khaled-laptop> 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:41803 Archived-At: Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:01:03PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> just english from lang-ger.tex and copy it to lang-xxx.tex and add the >> labels in utf code, as starting point for further integration (maybe >> also take variants into account) > > See the attached file, I left the copyright and some other comments that > I don't know how to deal with. Also I didn't translate "Intermezzo" > since I don't have the slightest idea what it is supposed to be, may be > Mr. Idris can help. > > Now how locale variants are handled, there are at least 4 month naming > systems used in different Arabic countries; say Syria, Lebanon and > Jordon use the same system, while Egypt and Sudan use another one. How > can I define common values shared between several locales? Sorry for > asking so much. say that we have a language 'arab' which is the generic form \installlanguage[syriac][default=arab] of whatever suits best; you then just have to define the differences 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________