ARIAL and hebrew

ARIAL and hebrew

[Willi Egger]

Good evening!

I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points   between the glyphs instead of thereunder. — So my question is, does anybody have experience with the use of Arial for typesetting Hebrew?

Kinde regards

Willi
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Re: ARIAL and hebrew

[Arthur Reutenauer]

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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:47:24PM +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
> I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points   between the glyphs instead of thereunder.

  Example, please :-)

  The following, adapted from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew#Hebrew,
works well from me:

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\starttext

\definedfont[name:arial*hebrew]
Hello, World!

\setupalign[r2l]
בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.  וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם.  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר.  וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ.  וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד.

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	Best,

		ARrthur

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\starttext

\definedfont[name:arial*hebrew]
Hello, World!

\setupalign[r2l]
בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.  וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם.  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר.  וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ.  וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד.

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Re: ARIAL and hebrew

[Willi Egger]

Thank you Arthur for your reply,

Looking at your result it is indeed ok. On my laptop (MacOS) and my brother’s (Ubuntu), the described problem occurs. -- I thought already, it is related to the font itself. I tried in the meantime Liberation-Regular-Sans which gives the right result.

Thank you for your input!

Willi

> On 4 Mar 2019, at 08:12, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:47:24PM +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
>> I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points   between the glyphs instead of thereunder.
> 
>  Example, please :-)
> 
>  The following, adapted from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew#Hebrew,
> works well from me:
> 
> ---- cut before
> \starttext
> 
> \definedfont[name:arial*hebrew]
> Hello, World!
> 
> \setupalign[r2l]
> בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.  וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם.  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר.  וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ.  וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד.
> 
> \stoptext
> ---- cut after
> 
> 	Best,
> 
> 		ARrthur
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