From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25055 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Right-to-left typesetting in Farsi for Context. Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:36:13 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <200601091643.14825.john@wexfordpress.com> <43C2EF5E.3070802@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136907414 18208 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 15:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 10 16:36:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwLY6-0000HJ-6A for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF98312778; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09201-01; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504601277B; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BC11277B for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14946-07-2 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B72412778 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:36:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 27299 invoked by uid 1006); 10 Jan 2006 15:36:29 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:SA:0(0.0/100.0):. Processed in 2.753508 secs); 10 Jan 2006 15:36:29 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.5) by -v with SMTP; 10 Jan 2006 15:36:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29912 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2006 15:36:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah1.wildblue.com) (70.41.4.165) by -v with SMTP; 10 Jan 2006 15:36:23 -0000 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.51 (Win32, build 7712) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25055 Archived-At: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:25:16 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid =20 wrote: > You can use whatever font your client prefers, particularly if it does = =20 > not involve a lot of ligatures or vowels (most fonts used in Persian =20 > typesetting are pretty basic in this regard, with the very important =20 > exception of Nastaliq, which TeX/Aleph cannot do quite yet...) Clarification: you can use heavy vowels and ligatures; it's just a lot of= =20 tedious work to set up... --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/