From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: Ajami script
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 10:21:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f15f14f4-5c36-0c9e-c055-03cf9170c63b@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d11eaa-16a9-7757-db06-6ef6387c88bf@fiee.net>
On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> I just read this:
> https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/
>
> And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of typesetting this
> variant of Arabic. (Just out of curiosity, I can’t read any Arabic and
> don’t know any African language.)
Afaiks that script has been known fro a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script
http://www.currah.download/pages/ajamisenegal/index.html#police
so when there are proper fonts, as:
https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/
https://software.sil.org/harmattan/
it should be doable. The script is supported by unicode. I get the
impression that the arabic scipt is mostly used getting the way the
languages sounds on paper so vowels matter. There is mentioning of
transliteration and so that might need some specific support. Nothing
tex (context) can't do bnut only users and usage can prove that.
Hans
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-31 14:06 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-01-01 9:21 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2023-01-01 10:03 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-01-01 11:25 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-01-01 13:20 ` Alain Delmotte via ntg-context
2023-01-01 18:13 ` BPJ via ntg-context
2023-01-01 18:54 ` George N. White III via ntg-context
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