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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: mixing English and Hebrew
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:20:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ED5BD1.9070100@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ED4AA5.9010109@web.de>

On 7/22/2013 5:07 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> On 22/07/13 10:02, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 7/21/2013 9:29 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> How can I enable r2l alignment only for Hebrew in the sample above?
>>
>> \setupdirections[bidi=on]
>>
>> but keep in mind that as we're deling with tex i.e. a programmable
>> system which has commands for changing directions, automatisms can clash
>> with user commands (when decisions are to be made)
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
>
> Everything seems to work fine with bidirectionality, but some characters
> disappear.
>
> Here is a sample were Hebrew is almost not printed:
>
>      \usemodule[simplefonts]
>      \setupdirections[bidi=on]
>      \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][lang=heb,script=hebr]
>      \setmainfontfallback[LinuxLibertineO]
>        [range=hebrew,force=yes,features=hebrew]
>      \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]
>      \starttext
>      This Hebrew letter isn’t printed: אָֽ.
>      \stoptext
>
> I don’t know what is wrong here. The font seems to have defined the
> glyph (I‘ve checked it with fontforge).

a font issue ?

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-21 19:29 Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-22  8:02 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-22 15:07   ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-22 16:20     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-07-22 17:50       ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-22 17:59         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-22 18:14           ` Pablo Rodríguez

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