PS I see that the Hebrew text did not come through the list email (at least
not on the version that I received).  Is there a standard way to send
unicode text to this list?

Best,
Michael

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu> wrote:

> I am new to ConTeXt and very impressed.   Much thanks to Hans Hagen and Idris
> Samawi Hamid for an excellent introduction.
>
> I am using the Hebrew Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Fonts.  My question concerns
> the placement of the Hebrew vowel points ("niqqud").  For most letters, the
> vowel points are placed too far to the left, as opposed to centered
> directly under the letter.
>
> A short example follows.  For some of the letters, e.g., "Hebrew Letter
> Alef With Qamats" (kind of a t-shaped vowel underneath the alef), the vowel
> is correctly centered.  For others it appears incorrectly to the left.
>  (This may be connected with whether the letter+vowel is packaged as a
> single character or whether it is being composed on the fly.)
>
> I have used the same font in several predecessor programs (the makor
> package for lamed and the cjhebrew package for LaTeX) and the vowels points
> are placed correctly.
>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions regarding adjusting the
> placement of the vowel points.  (ConTeXt version info is at the end of the
> message.)
>
> Thank you,
> Michael
>
>
> \definefontfeature[hebrew][arabic][script=hebr]
> \definefont[hebrew][name:ezrasil]
>
> \starttext
>
> Zephania 3:8 includes all of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, the
> equivalent of \quotation{The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs} in
> English.
>
> \startalignment[left]
>
> \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
>
>
>
>
> Here is the ConTeXt version and  operating system:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux mash-laptop 3.8.0-23-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 20:24:54 UTC
> 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ context --version
> mtx-context     | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60
> mtx-context     |
> mtx-context     | main context file:
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.mkiv
> mtx-context     | current version: 2013.06.04 23:52
>
>
>
>


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