From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:53:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vm1qm2og60pfzx@ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinRtLwQqtv_4qEEFszjgvsEkSSKdnrRAa3=yzLx@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:48:13 -0700, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
>> What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg,
>>
>> \setmainlanguage[arabic]
>> \setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should be implied by
>> \setmainlanguage[arabic]
>>
>> \starttext
>> أهلا بالعالم!
>> \stoptext
>>
>> And get Scheharezade without doing anything else.
> Maybe we can put the fonts as an extra module .
Why a seperate module? It's an Open Font License. Why add unnecessary
extra work for users, especially new ones?
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shiʿi Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 21:48 Jon Crump
2010-11-29 4:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 5:14 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 18:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-29 18:03 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-11-29 19:16 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-11-29 19:23 ` luigi scarso
2010-11-29 19:28 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-30 11:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-11-30 12:06 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-30 14:46 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-12-01 9:48 ` luigi scarso
2010-12-01 17:53 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد [this message]
2010-11-29 20:18 ` Jon Crump
2010-11-29 18:11 ` Khaled Hosny
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