Re: r2l alignment and linenumbering conflict?

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <Idris.Hamid@colostate.edu>]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:56:33 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 8/3/2015 5:42 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:13:34 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/3/2015 4:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> what would be the proper name for such a conversion? simplearabic?
>>>> arabicdigits?
>>>>
>>>>> [myconversion]
>>>>> [١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧,٨,٩,١٠,
>>>>> ١١,١٢,١٣,١٤,١٥,١٦,١٧,١٨,١٩,٢٠,
>>>>> ۲۱,۲۲,۲۳,۲٤,۲٥,۲٦,۲۷,۲۸,۲۹,۳۰,
>>>>  > another million entries
>>>
>>> the next beta will have:
>>>
>>> \setuplinenumbering[conversion=arabicdecimals]
>>
>> What's wrong with 'persiannumerals' and 'arabicnumerals' which we had
>> before? They are not supposed to by synonymous for abjadnumerals... In
>> any case we need
>>
>> U+: [0030-0039] -> [0660-0669]: arabicdecimals
>> U+: [0030-0039] -> [06F0-06F9]: persiandecimals
>
> don't confuse decimals with alphabetic ones
>
> a b c ... z aa ab ac ... az ....
>
> vs
>
> 1 2 3 ... 10 11 12
>
> so decimals is mapping chars 0-9 onto whatever else, in principle we can  
> have 15 => ae and 21 => ba

Sure, but that's what abjadnumerals are for. Right now we have

abjadnumerals=persiannumerals=arabicnumerals

If that's intentional, then no problem, arabicdecimals and persiandecimals  
are fine nomenclature

Ah, it just hit me: You're making a literal analogy with romannumerals....

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Idris Samawi Hamid
Professor of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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