From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38914 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:54:01 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> <47D39AB3-A934-4BF0-8A3A-2A1AADAD90EC@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201820136 14656 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 22:55:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:55:36 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 31 23:55:56 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKiK4-0000h6-1C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:55:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDE41FC91; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:55:26 +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 10256-01-6; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02161FB74; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A40B1FB74 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:38 +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 09981-10-2 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (parker.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.125]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7D41FA2B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.13.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id m0VMs2BB2281908 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:54:02 -0700 Original-Received: from ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu (ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.97]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.2/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id m0VMs2K1667150 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:54:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <47D39AB3-A934-4BF0-8A3A-2A1AADAD90EC@fiee.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.20 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:38914 Archived-At: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:45 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________