Am 21.05.2011 um 10:15 schrieb R. Ermers:
Dear all,
I have some fragments of Arabic in my dutch context document (mkiv). I tried
the environment ara-sty on the wiki, but Context halts at
\setcharactermirroring[1]
Then I found in an e-mail on the internet the suggestion to give up on
setcharactermirroring and use instead these instructions:
%\setupdirections[bidi=global] or
\setupdirections[bidi=local]
I replaced charactermirroring by \setupdirections[bidi=local] but there seems
to be a problem with that too.
The environment ara-sty apparently interferes with the section headings in my
document anyway, perhaps because it is designed for documents whose
mainlanguage is Arabic. I found elaborate suggestions to typeset a 'hello'
document in Arabic, but my document contains mixed text. (When I uncomment
ara-sty, the document is typeset normally.)
Note that I have been typesetting Arabic texts in Latex (starting with
ArabTeX) and xelatex (unicode) for years now, but I expected that
typesetting Arabic in Context / Luatex is more complicated.
Thus I have two questions:
1. which module should I load or which commands should I add to the preambule
for typesetting Arabic,
You can use the simplefonts module to set different fonts for your main text
and the arabic parts:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]
\setmainfontfallback[Arabic Typesetting Sample][features=arabic,range=arabic]
\starttext
\setupdirections[bidi=on]
\input knuth\par
عقل
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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