From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>,
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:14:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vmw15ubzpw6hmh@ishamid-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vmw0wuzopw6hmh@ishamid-pc>
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:47:08 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
<ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
> There is an modified version of scheherezade for TeX distros (Khaled and
> I played with it once upon a time) but I don't know where it is at the
> moment, as it's been ages since I worked on it. I thought it was part of
> the ConTeXt distro already but I could not find it. I'll check into it
> later.
> Khaled, do you have that modified scheherezade somewhere?
The modified Scheherezade is called SimpleNaskhi.ttf, I assume Khaled has
the latest version.
Hans, Mojca: I suggest going ahead and making SimpleNaskhi the default
arabic-script unicode fallback for MkIV:
\definefontfeature[simplearabic]
[mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab,
init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,calt=yes,
rlig=yes,curs=yes,mark=yes,mkmk=yes]
It is a very unicode-complete font, while -- as the name suggests -- quite
simple in features. For fallbacks we need:
[arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,
arabicsupplement,0x200C,0x200D]
we have to play with rscale to get the right balance with LM I guess...
If SimpleNaskhi is somehow broken or unavailable then we just go with
ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf
as the default font.
[BTW: I think we discussed this 18 months or so ago...]
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-29 5:14 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
2010-11-29 20:18 ` Jon Crump
2010-11-29 18:11 ` Khaled Hosny
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