[NTG-context] Sample farsi file

can someone send me a sample file to type farsi? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

Is it possible to import functionalities of XePersian into ConTeXt. Xepersian now is excellent in Persian typesetting and you can do all you want in Persian typography. but I hate LaTeX. its main author unfortunately is anti-ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

thanks. but this file looks like a textbook. it is too long. can not be shorter? I have not tried your sample but 1) will this produce farsi maths? (2) I want irani date, is it possible? (3) From otared samples, i can see that luatex can not handle fonts well, is the issue solved? 4) how footnote

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

1) numbers in maths formula is Persian, possible? 2) is it hard to write a converter? 4) there are two footnote commands. one for persian and one for english. persian footnotes will be on left and persian footnotes on right. also if the first footnote in a page is persian, footnote rule is on

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

thanks. it is rl. (I believe) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage :

[NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: Hi, On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki ilda.kh...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX engines to decide the best one

[NTG-context] Jalali Calendar for MKIv

Hi, This is the macro for Jalali Calendar taken from xepersian \newif\i...@leap \newif\i...@kabiseh \newcount...@i \newcount...@y \newcount...@m \newcount...@d \newcount...@latini\newcount...@persiani \newcount...@latinii

[NTG-context] automatic footnote rule in MKIV

as I said before, in Persian we have two footnotes, one for Persian and the other for English, if the first footnote in a pageis English, then footnote rule will appear on left hand side and if the first footnote in a pgeis persian, the footnote appears on right . handside. this is the code taken

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

In fact there are some Persian/Arabic fonts in TL08 and there is no need to include them. They are a part of xepersian package. I think they should be at fonts/truetype/xepersian These fonts include SIL's font in addition to farsiweb fonts. Looking at CTAN, it seems that the author of xepersian

[NTG-context] updating context

today, by looking at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV and following instructions, after updating context and luatex binary in opensuse 11.1, if I run luatools --generate in the terminal as both a root user or a normal user, it will not work and I get bash: /usr/local/bin/luatools: