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.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.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 ?
One more question : in the English translitteration, the name of the tenth century Arabic philosopher, Farabi, is
Thak you very much.
JP
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