Re: seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

[Jon Crump <jjcrump@uw.edu>]

Idris, Khaled, et alia,

Many, many thanks! Failing to find SimpleNaskhi.ttf anywhere, I
downloaded ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf from SIL. I have the font in the same
directory as my tei file apr.xml; along with my ara-sty.tex file
suitably edited with the font name for the \definefontsynonym
commands; and the environment file svo-tei.tex, in which I assert at
the top: \environment ara-sty, and call in a \startxmlsetups command
thus:

\startxmlsetups xml:div:month
	\blank[line]\midaligned{\xmlatt{#1}{n}}\blank[medium]
	\setarabic
\stopxmlsetups

Now, when I invoke context at the command-line:

context --environment=svo-tei.tex apr.xml

I'm finally seeing some Arabic text, and it's beautiful! It's a great
pity I don't actually read Arabic ;-(

It remains now to define my xmlsetups in such a way as to be able to
distinguish between the Arabic and Roman sections; my tei file is a
bit idiosyncratic, and I've much to do still in grasping the necessary
lpath expressions, but at last I'm making some progress! My heartfelt
thanks and profound admiration for all that you and your colleagues
have accomplished. I hope you'll not mind further simple-minded
questions down the road as I progress with this project.

Best,
Jon


2010/11/28 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
> Hi Jon,
> Thankfully, with MkIV one [thankfully] no longer needs to concern oneself
> with metric files

Amen!

> NP, and that page needs updating anyway. For example, forget about
>
> \setcharactermirroring[1]
>
> and use
>
> \setupdirections[bidi=global] or
> \setupdirections[bidi=local]

not sure how to use these yet, but it's working.

> There is a simpler way to approach this, I'll try to post an example in the coming days.

I'll look forward to any guidance for tyros that you may care to share

J
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