On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Burak Emir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and > contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far. > > Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic. > > What would I use? > > I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some > presentations for LuaTeX and typesetting Arabic was mentioned there as > motivation. This is how I got to ConTeXt in the first place.
Omega is dead or nearly dead and part of the code is integrated in LuaTeX. > Trying the documentation, I ended up on the following page which says "TODO" > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew > > I also searched mail archives, but the mails I found on this subject were > from 2003, so I thought it is worth probing for an update. > > Any news or hints appreciated. The MkIV manual [1] has a section about arabic, you try the following code with LuaTeX or XeTeX (should work). \definefontfeature [arab-default] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \definefont[ArabFont][arabtype*arab-default at 18pt] \starttext Normal text. {\ArabFont Your arabic text.} \stoptext arabtype in \definefont is the name of your font and you should replace it with one available on your system. [1] http://pragma-ade.nl/show-man-41.htm Greetings Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
