From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:54:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t5tgkbywnx1yh1@ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D39AB3-A934-4BF0-8A3A-2A1AADAD90EC@fiee.net>
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:45 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
wrote:
>>> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ??
>> These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of
>> Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv.
>
> Hm, reminds me of conventions where you place currency symbols -
> depending on if you live in a economist/accountant surrounding...
>
> Do you think some automated handling of such is possible at all?
One can already handle this sort of thing using Omega Translation
Processes, which luaTeX supports. For example, there is an otp which makes
sure that numeral-strings are always treated as LR, otherwise 1234 would
come out as 4321. I suppose translating these rules into lua and/or
opentype rules should be easy...
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 9:27 Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 12:44 ` Mr Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI
2008-01-31 15:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 15:48 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 15:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 20:25 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-01-31 22:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2008-01-31 22:59 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-31 22:35 ` Peter Münster
2008-01-31 22:42 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-31 23:11 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 2:50 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-01 9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-02-01 7:07 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 11:15 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-02-01 12:14 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 14:32 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-08 9:12 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-01-31 23:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 9:06 ` Hans Hagen
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