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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:48:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinRtLwQqtv_4qEEFszjgvsEkSSKdnrRAa3=yzLx@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vmznbc1xpw6hmh@ishamid-pc>

2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
> What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg,
>
> \setmainlanguage[arabic]
> \setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should be implied by
> \setmainlanguage[arabic]
>
> \starttext
> أهلا بالعالم!
> \stoptext
>
> And get Scheharezade without doing anything else.
Maybe we can put the fonts as an extra module .

-- 
luigi
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-28 21:48 Jon Crump
2010-11-29  4:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد
2010-11-29  5:14   ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 18:30     ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-29 18:03   ` Khaled Hosny
2010-11-29 19:16     ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس  سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 19:23       ` luigi scarso
2010-11-29 19:28         ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-30 11:50       ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-11-30 12:06         ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-30 14:46         ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد
2010-12-01  9:48           ` luigi scarso [this message]
2010-12-01 17:53             ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس  سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 20:18   ` Jon Crump
2010-11-29 18:11 ` Khaled Hosny

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