Am 05.05.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu>:

> ... see message 56606
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg56606.html> in the
> list archive. This is not the post-simplefonts solution, but the
> pre-simplefonts solution. It does allow much better control over all of
> the fonts that make up the typeface (using ConTeXt terminology).
>  
> If you set only some Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic, and especially if you do not
> need font variants (bold, italic, ...) you might prefer to define a
> single font. 
> 
> Thank you very much again.  This was helpful, and here is my minimal working example:
> 
> 
> \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][script=hebr,ccmp=yes]
> \definefont [myhebrew] [SILEOTSR.ttf*hebrew] 
> \setupdirections[bidi=on,method=two]
> 
> \starttext
> Here is the first line of the Bible.
> 
> {\myhebrew  בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃  }
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> 
> I still have some questions.  It took me a long time to understand that
> 
> \definefont [myhebrew] [SILEOTSR.ttf*hebrew] 
> 
> would use the fontfeature "hebrew" that I had defined together with the font file SILEOTSR.ttf and assign this pairing to the nickname "myhebrew".  Rik's example also has "sa 1" which I do not understand. 
> 
> \definefontfeature [aramaic] [default][ccmp=yes,script=hebr]
> \definefont [aramaic] [KeterYG-Medium.ttf*aramaic sa 1]
> 
> Is the syntax for definefont using "*" documented somewhere?  Is it similar to definefontsynonym at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX  (and below)?

You can find a description about the options in the old and new fonts manuals:

- http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf
- http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf

Wolfgang