Re: Question about \definefallback

[Jean-Pierre Delange <adeimantos@free.fr>]

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Dear List,

I answer to myself (or I give a solution to the problem I have to face). 
As for this precise case (i.e. having multilanguages in the same 
document with French as main language, with some words, sentences or 
whatever in  Ancient Greek, Chinese and Arabic/Persian/Farsi), the 
working solution is the \definefallbackfamily command with the 
\definefontfamily (as everybody knows !). In this case, I 've failed to 
deal with Arabic/Farsi (when I wanted to print the name of the Arabic 
medieval philosopher Fārābī, محمد فارابی

The code was : \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [sans] 
[hussaininastaleeq] [range=arabic], and it doesn't work.
I've tried this : \definefallbackfamily[mainface] [serif] 
[nafeesnastaleeq] [range=arabic,farsi] and it works.
A beginner's mistake, if I summarize...
JP


Le 24/07/2016 à 13:18, Jean-Pierre Delange a écrit :
> Dear List,
>
> Working with ConTeXt MK IV version 2016.07.18, I need sometimes within 
> a text in French I am working on, some Greek words or sentences, 
> rarely Chinese and Arabic words, mainly names and a few words.
>
> Then, I use this general preamble (thanks to Pablo Rodriguez):
>
> \setuplanguage[fr][patterns={fr,agr}]
>
> \mainlanguage[fr]
>
> \setuplayout [backspace=40mm]
>
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={header, inmargin}]
>
> \setupmargindata[inmargin][location=inner, 
> style={\ssx\setupinterlinespace[line=2.8ex]}]
>
> \setupmarginframed[inmargin][align=right]
>
> \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic]
>
>
> % Hereafter the commands for Greek and Chinese
>
> \definefallbackfamily[mainface][serif][Theano 
> Didot][preset=range:greek, it={Old Standard Italic}, force=yes]
>
> \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [rm] [ipaexmincho] 
> [range=cjkunifiedideographs]
>
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [GaramondNo8][sc=NewG8 Regular SC]
>
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [sans] [FreeSans] [rscale=0.7]
>
>
> All is working well, but if I add these lines below to the pramble:
>
>
> \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [sans] [hussaininastaleeq] [range=arabic]
>
>  \definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [GFS Didot]
> (where hussainiastaleeq and GFS Didot fonts are pre-installed, and 
> load with a '|mtxrun --script fonts --reload' command), then Arabic 
> words are not printed in the PDF file.
>
> One more question : in the English translitteration, the name of the 
> tenth century Arabic philosopher, Farabi, is |Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (with 
> diacritic signs on wovels and under the 's' of "Nasr"). Do someone 
> knows how to deal with these diacritic signs ?
> Thak you very much.
> JP
>
>
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