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From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: Right-to-left typesetting in Farsi for Context.
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:36:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.s255mnlknx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.s2544ewunx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com>

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:25:16 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid  
<ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> You can use whatever font your client prefers, particularly if it does  
> not involve a lot of ligatures or vowels (most fonts used in Persian  
> typesetting are pretty basic in this regard, with the very important  
> exception of Nastaliq, which TeX/Aleph cannot do quite yet...)

Clarification: you can use heavy vowels and ligatures; it's just a lot of  
tedious work to set up...

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-10 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-09 21:43 John R. Culleton
2006-01-09 23:18 ` Hans Hagen
2006-01-10 15:25   ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-01-10 15:36     ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2006-01-11 16:43     ` John R. Culleton

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