From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7689 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: small feature request Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:50:38 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <86OKQNLI893SRKHKG3YNKA8SQGBVTFD.3cbb836e@c1909372-a> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020415104200.046e6c00@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398136 21337 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020415104200.046e6c00@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7689 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7689 >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 also needs to be changed, since the >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 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 ========================== Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid Depatment of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80526