Re: mixed English and Arabic using Simplefonts?

[Talal Al-Azem <talazem@fastmail.fm>]

Dear Wolfgang and Khaled,

Thank you both for your replies. This has been very helpful. May I ask one further newbie question of simplefonts: how do I change the font for just the "fallback" font, without affecting the mainfont? Is there a way to do this by setting the size in points, or in scale (percentage), or some other fashion?

In fontspec, i was accustomed to something like:

\newfontfamily{\arfont}[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.66,WordSpace=1.66]{Scheherazade-Regular}

I am sure there are equivalents for these feature (size, scale, wordspace); I've seen many features in the simplefonts pdf. But i'm unsure how to define something like "arfont" using simplefonts.

Many thanks,
Talal

> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> 
> %\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
> \setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \input knuth
> 
> \textdir TRT ???? ???????!
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:25:12 +0200
> From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] mixed English and Arabic using Simplefonts?
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> On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 
>> Am 02.10.2010 um 02:16 schrieb Talal Al-Azem:
>> 
>>> My apologies if I'm dumbing down the level of discussion here. But I'm trying to get my head around fonts and bidirectionality using ConTeXt MkIV (as a rather unsophisticated user, not as a developer). 
>>> 
>>> To begin with, since it's all bit much at once, I'm trying to use simplefonts. I am unclear how to establish English as my language and its font as my main font (using the default font), and Arabic as a secondary language (using Scheherazade).
>>> 
>>> What would I change in the ara-sty environment found on wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew? Or, if I don't need to use this, should I define my own macro in my tex document for directionality?
>>> 
>>> I'm probably making a mess of some basic things here, but could use some help. I have working familiarity with Fontspec over on the XeLaTeX side of things, but the sparse documentation of simplefonts is leading to my uncertainty as how to proceed.
>> 
>> \usemodule[simplefonts]
>> 
>> %\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
>> \setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
> 
> I think there is no need for presentation forms, they are deprecated
> symbols not used for entering text.
> 
> -- 
> Khaled Hosny
> Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
> Free font developer
> 
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