Re: Passing unicode characters

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Mehdi Omidali wrote:
>> Dear Mojca,
>> Thanks for your complete answer. In fact, in persian (and maybe
>> arabic) documents, we need every digit be in persian,
> 
> But when you write, you probably write numbers in persian already?
> 
>> like chapter,
>> section,
> 
> \chapter and \section are a bit buggy as far as numbering is
> concerned, but you can use
>   \setuphead
>     [section]
>     [conversion=arabicnumerals]

the section numbering has to take too many things into account (there 
are sveral places where one can hook in conversion commands); 
complications are for instance in supporting chinese (left/right stuff) 
and separators; one problem is that the number needs to be expanded when 
it is written to lists; separator handlign (esp replacement) then can 
become rather hairy too

concerning left/right handling ... there has been added some trickery 
when idris needed it and was still using otp's but since otp's were 
error prone, this can easily interfere with other things

anyhow, in mkiv there will be a more flexible mechanism with more data 
being carried around so that in various stages one can tweak things like 
   conversions, separators, prefixes is much more detail (which then of 
course will lead to more demands)

Hans

(btw, you really don't want to know what numbering we have to use in our 
projects; it hardly fits a model)


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