Idris,

that's awesome news - I would have never imagined for something like this
to happen so quickly. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run (probably my own
fault). So far I'd been working with TeXLive. Now to try this out, I
installed ConTeXt standalone and then issued "first-setup.bat
--modules='m-hemistich'" (tried 't-hemistich' as well, and yes, Windows -
shame on me). It still gives the error message "resolvers > modules >
'hemistich' is not found", though. What am I missing?

Cheers,
          J.R.



On 29 August 2013 22:34, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <
ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> Dear gang,
>
> Re: Arabic poetry thread:
>
> Hans has just implemented high-level support for hemistiches and caesuras
> (using here the technical names for the style of poetry structure used in
> Arabic and other classical literature).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Hemistich<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemistich>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Caesura<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura>
>
> With the latest beta, run the attached file. The module m-hemistich.mkiv
> also has a demo inside.
>
> For Arabic, note the tatweel across columns (only manual for now). The
> separator option with \hemistiches is probably more useful for Latin and
> Greek classical literature etc where the separator occurs on every line;
> the \hemistichescaesura option is probably more useful for Arabic where
> there are only occasional connectors across columns.
>
> Could one of you kindly add a page with this info to the wiki? Much thanks
> and enjoy!
>
> Best wishes
> Idris
> --
> Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
> Department of Philosophy
> Colorado State University
> Fort Collins, CO 80523
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