Hi Jon,
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:48:32 -0700, Jon Crump <jjcr...@uw.edu> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm gradually getting my head around using ConTeXt to typeset texts
marked up in TEI/XML. I'm trying to typeset an English/Arabic text and
I keep breaking my teeth on the Arabic. I'm trying to do what I can
with the macTeX 2010 distribution, but the documentation on the
conTeXt wiki has me confused. The amount I don't know about TeX is
truly daunting, but clearly there are some basic things about font
management that I don't understand.
In this case it's not the font management, at least not yet ...
I thought I had found a minimal example in
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew that I could use as a
starting point. After saving it locally as ara-sty.tex I tried to
typeset:
% engine=luatex
\environment ara-sty
\starttext
\setarabic
أهلا بالعالم!
\stoptext
a PDF was produced but it contained no text save for !. Among the
things that conTeXt told me was:
!define font : font with name arabtype is not found
!define font : unknown font arabtype, loading aborted
!define font : unable to define arabtype as \*Arabic20ptrmtf*
Where should I look for this font? Where is conTeXt looking for it? If
I were to find it, where should I put it?
arabtype is a windows font. It's free-beer with windows but try a search
or two and you may find it stand-alone somewhere...
I gather that fonts on my
system can be used, but font metric files for them have to be
generated. How to do that?
Thankfully, with MkIV one [thankfully] no longer needs to concern oneself
with metric files
Apologies for the unfocused tyro questions, but the TeX world has
become so much larger than it was when I last used it that I feel
quite at sea with all the available documentation.
NP, and that page needs updating anyway. For example, forget about
\setcharactermirroring[1]
and use
\setupdirections[bidi=global] or
\setupdirections[bidi=local]
as needed. And no need for
% engine=luatex
Right now you need a font. Try the free and unicode-complete scheherezade
from SIL and replace
[name:arabtype]
with
[name:scheherezade]
or whatever the exact font name is.
There is an modified version of scheherezade for TeX distros (Khaled and I
played with it once upon a time) but I don't know where it is at the
moment, as it's been ages since I worked on it. I thought it was part of
the ConTeXt distro already but I could not find it. I'll check into it
later.
Khaled, do you have that modified scheherezade somewhere?
There is a simpler way to approach this, I'll try to post an example in
the coming days.
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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