On 8/1/2023 4:18 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote:
> Dear gang,
> 
> It appears that \defineactivecharacter does not work in lmtx:
> 
> \starttext
> \defineactivecharacter Ḥ  {\d{H}}
> \defineactivecharacter ḥ  {\d{h}}
> \defineactivecharacter Ṣ  {\d{S}}
> \defineactivecharacter ṣ  {\d{s}}
> \stoptext
> 
> This should not produce any typeset output but in lmtx it does.
> 
> Background: The following characters are essential for Arabic transliteration (assuming your email client has the chars):
> 
> Ṯṯ Ḥḥ Ḫḫ Ḏḏ Šš Ṣṣ Ḍḍ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ Ġġ Āā Īī Ūū ʿ ʾ
I'd use a different font but as you want to go cheap ... attached gets 
you going and will give you a few hours playing around with fonts.

Using a scaled c for some c like shape is kind of bad anyway, kind of 
using a comma for an ogonek.

Hans


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