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? <div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Michael<br><br>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Michael Ash <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mash@econs.umass.edu" target="_blank">mash@econs.umass.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div>I am new to ConTeXt and very impressed.   Much thanks to Hans Hagen and <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Idris Samawi Hamid for an excellent introduction.</span></div>


<div><br></div><div><div>I am using the Hebrew Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Fonts.  My question concerns the placement of the Hebrew vowel points (&quot;niqqud&quot;).  For most letters, the vowel points are placed too far to the left, as opposed to centered directly under the letter.  </div>


<div><br></div><div>A short example follows.  For some of the letters, e.g., &quot;Hebrew Letter Alef With Qamats&quot; (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.)</div>


<div><br></div><div>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.   </div></div><div><br></div><div>


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.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Michael</div><div>

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</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>\definefontfeature[hebrew][arabic][script=hebr]</div><div>\definefont[hebrew][name:ezrasil]</div><div><br></div><div>\starttext</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>


<div><br></div><div>\startalignment[left]</div><div><br></div><div>\textdir TRT </div><div>\hebrew</div><div>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׃</div>


<div>\stoptext</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the ConTeXt version and  operating system:</div><div><div><br></div><div>$ uname -a</div><div>Linux mash-laptop 3.8.0-23-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 20:24:54 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux</div>


</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ context --version</div><div>mtx-context     | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60</div><div>mtx-context     |</div><div>mtx-context     | main context file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.mkiv</div>


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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Michael Ash, Chair, Department of Economics<div>Professor of Economics and Public Policy         <br>University of Massachusetts<br>Amherst, MA 01003<br>Email <a href="mailto:mash@econs.umass.edu" target="_blank">mash@econs.umass.edu</a><br>

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