Wolfgang & Hans,

In customizing the date, is there a way to use a number converter on day
and year?  In particular, I'd like to apply persiandecimals conversion on
them.  (I have a similar question regarding \currentime.)

Thanks!
—Hossein

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
> 6. Juli 2016 um 20:02
> Hello,
>
> This was lost in the other thread, so I'm starting a fresh one dedicated
> to the question.
>
> 1) \showinstalledlanguages does not show pe/persian/fa or anything like
> that but it has several arabic variants.  was this dropped in MkIV or was
> there never a persian language environment even in MkII?  I thought there
> were translated labels for Farsi somewhere.
> 2) In the following MWE, ad-hoc hyphenation using \- works and leads to
> hyphenation.  However, specifying the pattern at the beginning does not
> have any effect.  Am I missing something?
>
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[dejavusans][features=arabic,range=arabic]
> \setupalign[r2l]
> \showframe
> \hyphenation{سازمان‌-دهی}
>
> \starttext
>
> %% The above pattern is not used here and the long word moves into the
> margin.
> \dorecurse{14}{سلام }
> سازمان‌دهی
> مناسب.
>
> %% It does work here, though.
> \dorecurse{14}{سلام }
> سازمان\-دهی
> مناسب.
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> How can one create a new language?  The languages manual
> <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/languages-mkiv.pdf> suggests
> that this is possible.  Does that mean I need to send the request to
> Hans/Wolfgang to create the new entry or can one do so dynamically?  Beside
> the issue of sorting in indices, etc.—which I will get to in due
> time—having an entry for language pe/persian seems to be necessary to
> *properly* use \setuplabeltext, etc.  Is that correct?
>
> You can create a new language (and synonyms for it) with the
> \installlanguage command, below is a slightly modified version of the
> arabic entry. You can change the values for leftquotation etc. and send the
> result to Hans.
>
> % this goes into mult-sys.mkiv
>
> \definesystemconstant {persian}         \definesystemconstant {fa}
>
> % this goes into lang-def.mkiv
>
> \installlanguage
>   [\s!fa]
>   [\c!spacing=\v!broad,
>    \c!leftsentence=\emdash,
>    \c!rightsentence=\emdash,
>    \c!leftsubsentence=\emdash,
>    \c!rightsubsentence=\emdash,
>    \c!leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote,
>    \c!rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote,
>    \c!leftquotation=\upperleftdoublesixquote,
>    \c!rightquotation=\upperrightdoubleninequote,
>    \c!date={\v!day,\space,\v!month,\space,\v!year}]
>
> \installlanguage [\s!persian] [\s!fa]
>
> \installlanguage[\s!fa-ir][\c!default=\s!fa]
>
>
> The default labels for the languages are stored in lang-txt.lua, you can
> add entries for persian and send the modified file to Hans.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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