At 07:50 PM 4/15/2002 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> >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....
we can add a key to the language settings specifying the sample text so
that it becomes language dependent.
\setuplanguage[en][text=abacadabra]
[a rather trivial patch, so i've done it]
Hans
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