Re: Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

From: Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu>
To: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:18:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKTWfUOrBr+jiz1LVSd6PZETp3Aw9ft6YRSsHbhV8kZK-hZwZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKTWfUNzAJ50yA-qbtA+dheuD4YBBZK+XcEP+91xM02T9bZAhg@mail.gmail.com>

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There is a nice answer from W. Schuster to the vowel placement question in
the archives at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/059969.html (I
didn't find it because the subject is "Misaligned Marks" rather than
"Hebrew vowel placement" but it resolves the question.  (Idris's
suggestions regarding options  to \definefontfeature were right on --
thanks) and I also learned more about \setupalign
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupalign

"*I am trying to set some text in Hebrew with diacritical marks, and
whenever there is a diacritical that's supposed to come in the middle of a
letter, all the marks are coming off misaligned, right after the glyph
rather than in the middle of it (or wherever they're supposed to be)."
*

Solution:

\usemodule[simplefonts]

\definefontfeature[hebrew][default][script=hebr,ccmp=yes,mark=yes]

\setmainfont[Ezra SIL][features=hebrew]

\setupalign[r2l]

\starttext
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ
\stoptext

Thanks all.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu> wrote:

> Thank you. The unicode text looked good (although reversed left-to-right
> as I sent it) in my sent mail, and it looked perfect (corrected
> right-to-left) in your response.  But it did not look good in the digest
> email (all the letters were convered to ?'s).
>
> Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt except for the vowel placement.  Any
> suggestions there?  Thank you again.
>
> Yours,
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <
> ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
>
>> Greetings, Michael,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:11 -0600, Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list?
>>>
>>
>> Your Unicode text came through perfectly:
>>
>>
>>  \textdir TRT
>>> \hebrew
>>> לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי
>>> לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָבְצִי מַמְלָכוֹת לִשְׁפֹּךְ עֲלֵיהֶם זַעְמִי כֹּל
>>> חֲרוֹן אַפִּי כִּי בְּאֵשׁ קִנְאָתִי תֵּאָכֵל כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>
>> Maybe the encoding of your browser/mail-client needs to be set to
>> "Unicode" ("Automatic" usually works too).
>>
>> For high-level text-direction control, you may experiment with
>>
>> \righttoleft
>> \lefttoright
>>
>> as well as
>>
>> \setupdirections[bidi=global]
>> \setupdirections[bidi=local]
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Idris
>> --
>> Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
>> Department of Philosophy
>> Colorado State University
>> Fort Collins, CO 80523
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Ash, Chair, Department of Economics
> Professor of Economics and Public Policy
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst, MA 01003
> Email mash@econs.umass.edu
> Tel +1-413-545-2590 Twitter @michaelaoash
>

-- 
Michael Ash, Chair, Department of Economics
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Email mash@econs.umass.edu
Tel +1-413-545-2590 Twitter @michaelaoash

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