* text fragments in arabic
@ 2011-05-21 8:15 R. Ermers
2011-05-21 8:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: R. Ermers @ 2011-05-21 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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,
2. how should I mark the Arabic fragments in my text? e.g. {\RT عقل}?
Thanks in advance!
Robert
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* Re: text fragments in arabic
2011-05-21 8:15 text fragments in arabic R. Ermers
@ 2011-05-21 8:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2011-05-21 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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