Re: r2l alignment and linenumbering conflict?

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Hi Hans,

Thanks for the new beta.

As Idris pointed out, the logic you follow for naming greeknumerals, romannumerals, persiannumerals, arabicnumerals, and all others in core-con.lua, makes sense but I didn’t notice this logic before…  Which means one may learn each and evry day :-)

As far as I know, at least in the Persian use of the abjad system of counting, the first case corresponding to the number 1, is usually written 
	الف
in order to avoid the confusion with the digit 
	۱

I don’t know if this can be fixed in the table you have in core-con.lua.

A further remark is that, don’t you think that the pagenumbering, as well as the numbers for chapters, sections, items, equations, etc, should be switched by default to arabicdecimals, or persiandecimals, as soon as \mainlanguage has been set to arabic or persian?
Or maybe one could have a command like
	\setupdefaultnumberings[arabicdecimals]
which sets a default for conversion of numbers for all the counters.

Again many thanks for the features you included in ConTeXt for bidi writing.

Best regards: OK

> On 04 Aug 2015, at 01:30, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 8/3/2015 9:25 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Hi Hans, Idris, Talal,
>> 
>> Some years ago we had a discussion on the issue, but I don’t remember where we ended up…
>> In my opinion, I think that the numberings should be maned as follows:
>> 
>> arabicnumerals: should be  ١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧,٨,٩,٠
>> 
>> persiannumerals: should be ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹ ۰
>> 
>> abjadnumerals: should be الف، ب، ج، د، ه، و، ز،…..
>> 
>> As of today it seems that « persiannumerals » results in what should be named abjadnuemrals, and this is not correct.
> 
> so you and idris and tatal has to come to some agreement on that
> 
> we have these alphabetic ones
> 
> arabicnumerals
> persiannumerals
> arabicexnumerals
> 
> and some special ones
> 
> abjadnumerals
> abjadnodotnumerals
> 
> (these use small, medium, large chars and do special things with 10 100 1000)
> 
> and now
> 
> arabicdecimals
> persiandecimals
> 
> see core-con.lua
> 
> Hans
> 
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