On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:24:50 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm
tala...@fastmail.fm wrote:
But, in any case, the solution of Wolfgang solves my immediate problem.
It would, of course, be nice not to have had to type out many lines of
numbers (the Arabic edition has more than 250 sections, i.e.
Never mind. After more word combinations when searching the archives, I came
across Wolfgang’s answer here: gmane.comp.tex.context/85673
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/85673, in which he says to
use the \defineconversion command. E.g.:
\defineconversion
[myconversion]
Dear all,
When typesetting in Arabic (or, for that matter, other non-Latin scripts), how
does one get numerals to appear ‘natively’ in layout structures such as
headers, page numbers, line-numbering, and footnote numbers? In the case of
Arabic, this means using the so-called “mashriqi”, or
Salaam, Talal,
See below:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:32:44 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm
tala...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Dear all,
When typesetting in Arabic (or, for that matter, other non-Latin
scripts), how does one get numerals to appear ‘natively’ in layout
structures such as headers, page
Thank you for that, Idris. I had tried those earlier, but both of them gave me
not digits but the Arabic equivalents of roman numerals — letters, used in the
Arabic language, to denote enumeration (as you know). In fact, I have now
settled on using those for my front matter in the Arabic
