Idris, Khaled, et alia, Many, many thanks! Failing to find SimpleNaskhi.ttf anywhere, I downloaded ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf from SIL. I have the font in the same directory as my tei file apr.xml; along with my ara-sty.tex file suitably edited with the font name for the \definefontsynonym commands; and the environment file svo-tei.tex, in which I assert at the top: \environment ara-sty, and call in a \startxmlsetups command thus:
\startxmlsetups xml:div:month \blank[line]\midaligned{\xmlatt{#1}{n}}\blank[medium] \setarabic \stopxmlsetups Now, when I invoke context at the command-line: context --environment=svo-tei.tex apr.xml I'm finally seeing some Arabic text, and it's beautiful! It's a great pity I don't actually read Arabic ;-( It remains now to define my xmlsetups in such a way as to be able to distinguish between the Arabic and Roman sections; my tei file is a bit idiosyncratic, and I've much to do still in grasping the necessary lpath expressions, but at last I'm making some progress! My heartfelt thanks and profound admiration for all that you and your colleagues have accomplished. I hope you'll not mind further simple-minded questions down the road as I progress with this project. Best, Jon 2010/11/28 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <isha...@colostate.edu>: > Hi Jon, > Thankfully, with MkIV one [thankfully] no longer needs to concern oneself > with metric files Amen! > NP, and that page needs updating anyway. For example, forget about > > \setcharactermirroring[1] > > and use > > \setupdirections[bidi=global] or > \setupdirections[bidi=local] not sure how to use these yet, but it's working. > There is a simpler way to approach this, I'll try to post an example in the > coming days. I'll look forward to any guidance for tyros that you may care to share J ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________