Re: [NTG-context] Arabic/Hindi numerals in layout structures (headers, page numbers, etc.)

On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:24:50 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: But, in any case, the solution of Wolfgang solves my immediate problem. It would, of course, be nice not to have had to type out many lines of numbers (the Arabic edition has more than 250 sections, i.e. entries), and to have

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic/Hindi numerals in layout structures (headers, page numbers, etc.)

Thank you for that, Idris. I had tried those earlier, but both of them gave me not digits but the Arabic equivalents of roman numerals — letters, used in the Arabic language, to denote enumeration (as you know). In fact, I have now settled on using those for my front matter in the Arabic critica

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic/Hindi numerals in layout structures (headers, page numbers, etc.)

Salaam, Talal, See below: On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:32:44 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear all, When typesetting in Arabic (or, for that matter, other non-Latin scripts), how does one get numerals to appear ‘natively’ in layout structures such as headers, page numbers, line-numberin

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic/Hindi numerals in layout structures (headers, page numbers, etc.)

Never mind. After more word combinations when searching the archives, I came across Wolfgang’s answer here: gmane.comp.tex.context/85673 , in which he says to use the \defineconversion command. E.g.: \defineconversion [myconversion] [۱,

[NTG-context] Arabic/Hindi numerals in layout structures (headers, page numbers, etc.)

Dear all, When typesetting in Arabic (or, for that matter, other non-Latin scripts), how does one get numerals to appear ‘natively’ in layout structures such as headers, page numbers, line-numbering, and footnote numbers? In the case of Arabic, this means using the so-called “mashriqi”, or “Ar