From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Cc: "dev-orientaltex@ntg.nl" <dev-orientaltex@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: arab (omega)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:38:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.tbppynqsnx1yh1@walayah-main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449E4485.3080201@elvenkind.com>
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:08:37 -0600, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
wrote:
> My guess is you could just remove the punctuation support from the
> current OTP. If a user really needs to say "1.2 million", (s)he can
> just write $1.2$ instead, which is more or less standard TeX
> practice anyway.
>
> It is my understanding that the contents of $$ is unaffected by
> OTPs (and if it is not, it should be made so. Math is a language
> on its own).
ok, it's done. The new ocp is here:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/images/2/27/Uni2cuni.zip
and the instructions are here:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide#Installing
Now, in normal text, +, -, and . are treated as separators, not plus sign,
minus, and decimal point. If you want math use $$ etc. but then you will
get the math font not omarb (which is standard practice in the
Arabic-script world).
I have no idea if this affects Hans' solution (have not upgraded yet);
this is all experimental so things may change.
An aside: Classical Arabic is more sensical. Consider the number 3721. In
classical Arabic one says, "one and twenty and and seven hundred and three
thousand", which makes much more sense for a r-l language. So one would
write the numeral from r to l and it would look the same. How decimals
would be handled in the classical case needs a bit of research
Best
Idris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-25 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 18:59 Hans Hagen
2006-06-24 16:37 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-06-24 17:25 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-06-25 8:08 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-06-25 17:38 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2006-06-25 19:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-06-25 16:01 ` Hans Hagen
2006-06-25 18:34 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-06-25 6:37 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-06-25 15:57 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] <mailman.196.1151291766.1824.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2006-06-26 7:56 ` Duncan Hothersall
2006-06-26 20:14 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-06-26 9:59 ` Duncan Hothersall
2006-06-26 14:21 ` Hans Hagen
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