From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83967 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:39:23 +0200 Message-ID: <521BBCFB.1080507@wxs.nl> References: <20130826180629.GV18239@homerow> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377549601 5168 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2013 20:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:40:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 26 22:40:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VE3a0-0006YK-Kc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B95A1020F; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LUGxf214K-aT; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90336101FC; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB17101FC for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bISrDiUcjeFd for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (filter3-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEA1101F9 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:38:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r7QKdooJ029651 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:39:50 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.104; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 2990-1713362 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:39:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <20130826180629.GV18239@homerow> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08KhwDOtj - 4ceadc19cd40 - 20130826 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:83967 Archived-At: On 8/26/2013 8:06 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > In contrast to Latin script, justifying Arabic text is not solely > achieved by varying the inter-word space, but also by means of > elongating particular glyps=B2. After having read Idris' article=B3 it > seems like this is a font feature. However, I have no idea which > particular feature is responsible for the elongation and how many > fonts actually have it. I could not find the mentioned Husayni font > anywhere, which seems to be able to do this. So for the time being > the justification is only done by varying the inter-word space. there is a special mechanism for that in context already for some years = but it works best with arabic fonts that have an extensive featureset = like the upcoming husayni ... once that font is ready idris will wrap up = the systematic approach related to this font (as it depends on featuresets) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________