Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-26 Thread J. R. Schmid
Hi Idris, thank you much for your answer and also the attached files! I've played around with your module and ran into some problems which may have been due to my inexperiencedness with ConTeXt (rupturing of ligatures, at least with Scheherazade and inconsistent line height). Marco has been

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-26 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–26 J. R. Schmid wrote: I've played around with your module and ran into some problems which may have been due to my inexperiencedness with ConTeXt (rupturing of ligatures, at least with Scheherazade and inconsistent line height). Marco has been helping me though, and it looks like

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/26/2013 8:06 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: In contrast to Latin script, justifying Arabic text is not solely achieved by varying the inter-word space, but also by means of elongating particular glyps². After having read Idris' article³ it seems like this is a font feature. However, I have no

[NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-24 Thread J. R. Schmid
Dear list, for better or worse, I'm trying to typeset Arabic poetry in ConTeXt after having become fed up with LaTeX for a variety of reasons. Arabic script itself is not a problem and I already love how easy it is to use whatever font you like and how clean ConTeXt seems to be in its design.

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi JR, On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:12:54 -0600, J. R. Schmid j...@weitnahbei.de wrote: for better or worse, I'm trying to typeset Arabic poetry in ConTeXt For better :-) after having become fed up with LaTeX for a variety of reasons. Arabic script itself is not a problem and I already love how