On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 02.10.2010 um 02:16 schrieb Talal Al-Azem:
>
> > My apologies if I'm dumbing down the level of discussion here. But I'm
> > trying to get my head around fonts and bidirectionality using ConTeXt MkIV
> > (as a rather unsophisticated user, not as a developer).
> >
> > To begin with, since it's all bit much at once, I'm trying to use
> > simplefonts. I am unclear how to establish English as my language and its
> > font as my main font (using the default font), and Arabic as a secondary
> > language (using Scheherazade).
> >
> > What would I change in the ara-sty environment found on
> > wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew? Or, if I don't need to use this,
> > should I define my own macro in my tex document for directionality?
> >
> > I'm probably making a mess of some basic things here, but could use some
> > help. I have working familiarity with Fontspec over on the XeLaTeX side of
> > things, but the sparse documentation of simplefonts is leading to my
> > uncertainty as how to proceed.
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
>
> %\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
> \setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
I think there is no need for presentation forms, they are deprecated
symbols not used for entering text.
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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