Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-26 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Idris wrote: Dear gang, I have redone this. Now there are two filter sequences, one for main text and one for using the arabic-font digits in math mode. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide#Installing has been updated, get the new uni2cuni.zip. I'll update m-gamma soon so this

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-26 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans, in Friday's beta, core-sec.tex line 767 has \edef\levelstring{=\flistsectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}% which fails not knowing what \flistsectionseparator is. Reverting to \edef\levelstring{=\sectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}% works but

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hans, in Friday's beta, core-sec.tex line 767 has \edef\levelstring{=\flistsectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}% which fails not knowing what \flistsectionseparator is. Reverting to

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:56:03 -0600, Duncan Hothersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very grateful for all the effort on this. I had some trouble installing the new ConTeXt beta to test it at the weekend and spent most of Sunday trying to understand why... But at least I am now in a position to

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: of course you should not expect proper kerning when isolation is used with latin Why is this? A figure id like in 1.2 can have kerning between the 1 and dot, and the dot and 2. But when it is coded as 1{.}2, it won't. still messed up: math display formulas,

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: I found the problem: In uni2cuni.otp the numbering handling does two things: It DOES isolate non-numerals as separators within a given expression. So placing an Arabic letter between two numbers 5792ر684 processes fine; each individual number gets reversed.

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Why is this? tex itself does things, like with fi not being the same as f{}i [no lig building] and since otp's may insert things as well abc may different may differen from a{}b{}c (i must admit that i don't know when an otp stops scanning, i suppose at an

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:08:37 -0600, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is you could just remove the punctuation support from the current OTP. If a user really needs to say 1.2 million, (s)he can just write $1.2$ instead, which is more or less standard TeX practice anyway.

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:01:03 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't it simplier then to disable otp's in math mode What I could do is define two filter sequences: UTFArabic and UTFArabicMath. Hans, could you do a conditional that calls up one in math mode and the other everywhere

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, I have redone this. Now there are two filter sequences, one for main text and one for using the arabic-font digits in math mode. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide#Installing has been updated, get the new uni2cuni.zip. I'll update m-gamma soon so this will be part of the

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Hans, Thank you very much for this; will test in the coming days (I have not updated ConTeXt since Jan 28; hope there are are no deadly installation surprises-) ) On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:59:59 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi otp lovers, Well, `love' is much too strong a

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
I found the problem: In uni2cuni.otp the numbering handling does two things: It DOES isolate non-numerals as separators within a given expression. So placing an Arabic letter between two numbers 5792ر684 processes fine; each individual number gets reversed. But the otp makes exceptions for

[NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi otp lovers, i managed to get this number stuff running (i.e. bypass the otp messing up numbers): i'm uploading a beta beware, there is no need to setup separators, and no need to reverse numbers! \def\ArabicUTF {\ArabicDirGlobal \usefiltersequence[UTFArabic]%