Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-12-01 Thread luigi scarso
2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg, \setmainlanguage[arabic] \setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should be implied by \setmainlanguage[arabic] \starttext أهلا بالعالم! \stoptext And get

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-12-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:48:13 -0700, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg, \setmainlanguage[arabic] \setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should be

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
2010/11/29 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: OK: In that case, let's include the standard Scheharezade as is in the minimals until another unicode-complete font comes along. It has an Open Font License so should be no problem.

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 30-11-2010 12:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote: But then ... I somehow find it a bit weird to have Arabic fallback inside Latin Modern unless a user requests that explicitely and also that will not be a default (but one can of course configure that in cont-sys.tex) says which font he wants to

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:50:58 -0700, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/29 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: OK: In that case, let's include the standard Scheharezade as is in the minimals until

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:47:08PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:48:32PM -0800, Jon Crump 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

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 29-11-2010 6:14, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: \definefontfeature[simplearabic] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,calt=yes, rlig=yes,curs=yes,mark=yes,mkmk=yes] added -

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I've to dig for it, I'm sure it is there somewhere. However, I've long abandoned the idea of improving Scheherezade and instead concentrating on my own (Amiri) font, but it does not work with MkIV right now (and

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread luigi scarso
2010/11/29 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I've to dig for it, I'm sure it is there somewhere. However, I've long abandoned the idea of improving Scheherezade and instead concentrating

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 29-11-2010 8:23, luigi scarso wrote: 2010/11/29 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامدisha...@colostate.edu: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosnykhaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I've to dig for it, I'm sure it is there somewhere. However, I've long abandoned the idea of improving

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Jon Crump
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;

[NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-28 Thread Jon Crump
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

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:47:08 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: 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