Re: arabtex support - we broke something

[mohd zamri murah <mohdzamrimurah@gmail.com>]

Using test.tex and your new m-arabtex.tex, it fail. log and my solution below.

========= test.tex ====================================
\input m-arabtex
\usetypescript[postscript] \switchtotypeface[postscript]

\starttext 

\setarab \novocalize
  
\section{\<mu.hammad>} %short arabic use \< ..>

here is some text in english. here in arabic .\<mu.hammad>. we can mix
them. hurray. we get both of them together. we can see this is fun and
going nowhere.

\startarabic % long arabic
  kAjyn ayn mmr.hAl sAtw prwtwtA'yp awntwq mnjAnkn dwkwmn jAwy dry
  dwkwmn rwmy . 
  
  <hei, I am in english>
  
  ay mggwnAkn kwnsyp pgatwrcArA'n brAsAskn kwmpwnwn . 
 ay mggwnAkn kwnsyp pgatwrcArA'n brAsAskn kwmpwnwn.
\stoparabic

\stoptext 
================================================
error log;

! Extra \else.
\test@space ...\a@@putword \xpa \kill@space \else 
                                                  \xpa \next@command \fi 
<to be read again> 
....


my solution;
comment these lines; (near line 402 ). probably the support for hebrew
broke things.
another possibility is that all these 3 files already loaded by
m-arabtex.tex and reload them break things.

%  \ReadFile{hebtex.sty}
%  \ReadFile{apatch.sty}
%  \ReadFile{hepatch.sty}

and the file compile OK.

I don't knew hebrew, however, I will try to understand the hebrew support.

the character "|" and "~" still produce "illegal command" in
\startarabic...\stoprabic. will try to trace this one.
 
be happy to write the manual later.

zamri

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:42:24 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I cleaned up the files a bit (first step); can you test these?
> 
> \input m-arabtex % new version of \usemodule will accept long names
> 
> can you also take a loot at hebrew? (if you look in the file you can see the old
> hebrew font def with the strange  fontdimen settings;
> 
> maybe we should replace \vocalize and such by proper key/val settings (options
> or so); do you have a list of meaningful ones?
> 
> we also need a manual then -)
> 
> Hans
> 
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