From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: text fragments in arabic
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 10:38:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AC77CF3F-79F2-4C2D-A3DF-307C5A4A1351@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1D127409-BDFC-4D86-A047-149120C702C4@hccnet.nl>
Am 21.05.2011 um 10:15 schrieb R. Ermers:
> Dear all,
>
> I have some fragments of Arabic in my dutch context document (mkiv). I tried the environment ara-sty on the wiki, but Context halts at \setcharactermirroring[1]
>
> Then I found in an e-mail on the internet the suggestion to give up on setcharactermirroring and use instead these instructions:
>
> %\setupdirections[bidi=global] or
> \setupdirections[bidi=local]
>
> I replaced charactermirroring by \setupdirections[bidi=local] but there seems to be a problem with that too.
>
> The environment ara-sty apparently interferes with the section headings in my document anyway, perhaps because it is designed for documents whose mainlanguage is Arabic. I found elaborate suggestions to typeset a 'hello' document in Arabic, but my document contains mixed text. (When I uncomment ara-sty, the document is typeset normally.)
>
> Note that I have been typesetting Arabic texts in Latex (starting with ArabTeX) and xelatex (unicode) for years now, but I expected that typesetting Arabic in Context / Luatex is more complicated.
>
> Thus I have two questions:
>
> 1. which module should I load or which commands should I add to the preambule for typesetting Arabic,
You can use the simplefonts module to set different fonts for your main text and the arabic parts:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]
\setmainfontfallback[Arabic Typesetting Sample][features=arabic,range=arabic]
\starttext
\setupdirections[bidi=on]
\input knuth\par
عقل
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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