Arabic

Arabic

[dont.spam.no.dont]

Dear all,

I'm having a hard time to get context typeset arabic words with ligatures,
or say, to some order>1 according to page 7 of:
http://luatex.org/talks/print-orientaltex-eurotex-2009.pdf.

I'm using:
ConTeXt  ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV  fmt: 2011.8.15  int: english/english

I've put up this minimal example where the font used is amiri from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amiri/files/
and more precisely amiri-regular.ttf therein.

Any hint as to what I should do to get (at least the lam-alef ligature)?

Thank you for your help,
Olivier

%%%%%%%%%% minimal %%%%%%%%%%%%

\mainlanguage[arabic]

\definefontfeature
 [arabicfeats]
 [analyze=yes,mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab,
 ccmp=yes,init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes,
 liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,tlig=yes,clig=yes,
 calt=yes,salt=yes,aalt=yes,
 trep=yes,ccmp=yes,
 mark=yes,mkmk=yes,
 kern=yes,curs=yes,
 aalt=yes,mset=yes]

\definefont[ArabicFont][amiriregular*arabicfeats at 24pt]

\def\ArabicGlobalDir {\pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT}

\define\setarabic
 {\ArabicGlobalDir%
 \ArabicFont}

\starttext
{\setarabic  لا  في   }
\stoptext
\end
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Re: Arabic

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:13:24PM +0100, dont.spam.no.dont@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm having a hard time to get context typeset arabic words with ligatures,
> or say, to some order>1 according to page 7 of:
> http://luatex.org/talks/print-orientaltex-eurotex-2009.pdf.
> 
> I'm using:
> ConTeXt  ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV  fmt: 2011.8.15  int: english/english
> 
> I've put up this minimal example where the font used is amiri from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/amiri/files/
> and more precisely amiri-regular.ttf therein.
> 
> Any hint as to what I should do to get (at least the lam-alef ligature)?

Works here, I get both ligatures (though they are implemented in this
particular font as contextual forms not ligatures in the technical
sense).

If you are running recent enough version of ConTeXt (e.g. minimals) this
can be simplified to:

\mainlanguage[arabic]

\definefont[ArabicFont][name:amiri*arabic at 24pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*...

\starttext
\setupalign[r2l]
\ArabicFont
لا في 
\stoptext

Regards,
 Khaled
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Re: Arabic

[dont.spam.no.dont]

Dear Khaled,

following your advice, I installed the latest minimals (2011.11.14)
instead of the Debian
packaged version (2011.05.18, including unstable) and it indeed now
works perfectly.

شكرا جزيلا
Olivier
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