small feature request

[Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com>]

>2. macros like \showbodyfont and \showbodyfontenvironment are apparently done entirely in whatever font is selected at the point one of them is called. This does not work for Arabic, which 
>transcribes all of the information printed by the macros into Arabic characters, which is entirely meaningless. Can these macros be given the option of printing out the font name and other 
information 
>in a roman font (except for the actual font sample of course). That is, the Arabic font would only be called to print out sample Arabic characters. The <Ag> also needs to be changed, since the <g> 
>especially does not occur in the Arabic transcription. Something like <{.t}{j}> would work fine (the braces break contextual analysis so u get stand alone letters; the dot before the <t> is intentional).

Actually, an option for the non-Latin user to enter the transcription for the two-letter font sample as well as the transcription switch used in \showbodyfont would be better, since there are so many 
possible languages and transcriptions. 

More complicated than I thought....

Idris

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Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid
Depatment of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80526