Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread George N. White III via ntg-context
On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 2:14 PM BPJ via ntg-context wrote: It's a bit confusing because the word ʿajamī simply means anything written > in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script. Africa is certainly not the > only place where that term has been used. It is also the case that Arabic > script

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread BPJ via ntg-context
It's a bit confusing because the word ʿajamī simply means anything written in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script. Africa is certainly not the only place where that term has been used. It is also the case that Arabic script has been used to write West African languages for very many

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread Alain Delmotte via ntg-context
Le 1/01/2023 à 11:03, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context a écrit : Am 01.01.23 um 10:21 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I just read this: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

Re: [NTG-context] numbering questions

2023-01-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Thank you, Wolfgang! I _knew_ ConTeXt would be able to handle my requirements! ;D It’s wikified now (at \setuphead and \defineconversion). Hraban Am 01.01.23 um 11:27 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 31.12.2022 um 18:23: A happy new year to everyone!

Re: [NTG-context] issue with font

2023-01-01 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 1/1/23 12:38, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/1/2023 11:55 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: >> [...] >> I don’t know what is wrong in the font, but it would be great to be able >> to use it with ConTeXt. > Hm, i will catch it but am not going to look into the reason (like

Re: [NTG-context] issue with font

2023-01-01 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/1/2023 11:55 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote: Hans, I have the following sample. \starttext \definedfont[TruetypewriterPolyglott-mELa.ttf] \input zapf \stoptext I get a fatal error in the font file (both LMTX and MkIV). Font is

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 1/1/2023 11:03 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I also thought I heard about it several years ago. The article makes it sound like news, that might be the perspective of the US scholars or a necessary means to get funded. But the oldest sources quoted in Wikipedia are from

[NTG-context] issue with font

2023-01-01 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
Hans, I have the following sample. \starttext \definedfont[TruetypewriterPolyglott-mELa.ttf] \input zapf \stoptext I get a fatal error in the font file (both LMTX and MkIV). Font is https://www.fontspace.com/truetypewriter-polyglott-font-f14955 (direct donwnload from

Re: [NTG-context] numbering questions

2023-01-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context schrieb am 31.12.2022 um 18:23: A happy new year to everyone! I’m playing with some examples of section numbering. * Is there a setup to influence the order of number segments? I.e. can I have “section.chapter.part“ instead of “part.chapter.section”? You

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 01.01.23 um 10:21 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I just read this: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/ And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of typesetting this

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I just read this: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/ And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of typesetting this variant of Arabic. (Just out of curiosity, I can’t read