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 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 >> 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