>2. macros like \showbodyfont and \showbodyfontenvironment are apparently done
>entirely in whatever font is selected at the point one of them is called. This does
>not work for Arabic, which
>transcribes all of the information printed by the macros into Arabic characters,
>which is entirely meaningless. Can these macros be given the option of printing out
>the font name and other
information
>in a roman font (except for the actual font sample of course). That is, the Arabic
>font would only be called to print out sample Arabic characters. The <Ag> also needs
>to be changed, since the <g>
>especially does not occur in the Arabic transcription. Something like <{.t}{j}> would
>work fine (the braces break contextual analysis so u get stand alone letters; the dot
>before the <t> is intentional).
Actually, an option for the non-Latin user to enter the transcription for the
two-letter font sample as well as the transcription switch used in \showbodyfont would
be better, since there are so many
possible languages and transcriptions.
More complicated than I thought....
Idris
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Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid
Depatment of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80526
