From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "\"H. Özoguz\"" <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>
Subject: Re: Arabic Characters shown wrong
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:39:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FD6F4E.1050404@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50FD52A7.10504@mmnetz.de>
On 1/21/2013 3:37 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> today I have the following issue:
>
> In Arabic there is a character called "Lam-Alif", it is a composition of
> "Lam" and "Alif", which is displayed usually in another way, than just
> writing "Lam" and "Alif" after each other in the usual way.
>
> See here:
> لا
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
>
> For Arabic I use the font Scheherazade
>
> \definefont[Shehkl][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 15pt]
>
> \definestartstop[Arab][commands=\setups{Arabic}]
>
> \def\Arab{\doArab}
>
> \def\Arab[#1]{
>
> \startArab
>
> \noindentation
>
> \setupalign[r2l]\Shehkl#1
>
> \stopArab
>
> }
>
>
> which worked perfect, until today!
>
> Now if I write \Arab[لا]
>
> it is now not shown, like it should (and like your emailer will show it
> probably correctly, too).
> For conveniance I opened another, older, document, where the arab
> worked, and compiled it again, with absolutely no change -> and again,
> the same bug. What is the problem, what changed in ConText relevant to
> this problem, if any?
I don't know ... if the old version has it too then nothing changed I
guess.
\usemodule[fnt-20]
\starttext
\setvariables
[otftracker]
[direction=-1,
sample=لا,
title=Test,
font=file:arabtype,
% font=file:husayni,
% font=file:scheherazaderegot,
features=arabic]
\stoptext
Arabtype is the only one that has the 'rlig' for that combination. So,
more info is needed about what should trigger this ligature replacemnt.
Hans
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 14:37 "H. Özoguz"
2013-01-21 16:39 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-01-22 7:40 ` "H. Özoguz"
2013-01-22 12:13 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-22 13:54 ` "H. Özoguz"
2013-01-22 17:49 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-23 6:54 ` "H. Özoguz"
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