Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/24/2013 6:03 PM, H. Özoguz wrote: / May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you // may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - // http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts // // Thanks for your advice. //

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/25/2013 12:34 AM, H. Özoguz wrote: Thanks, that works fine: \definefont[arabicamiri][file:amiri-regular.ttf*arabic at 15pt] \definefont[arabicuth][file:UthmanicHafs1Ver09.ttf*arabic at 17pt] \def\eoa#1{#1\char06DD} \starttext \setupalign[r2l] \arabicuth لأَفَبِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:18:47PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: It is my believe that Unicode has the wrong properties for Arabic standalone Hamza; in short you should just type a regular Hamza in the middle of the word and it will get positioned correctly. Placing a combining Hamza over a Tatweel

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:01 PM, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: Now the question: I obviously cant set the entire book (more than 600 pages) with Corel-Draw, and want too use ConText, of course. So is there a way to produce this boldness out of this too thin font within ConText, too?

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by simplefonts. I

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.11.2013 um 15:32 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice.

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.11.2013 um 18:12 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang Thanks, I hoped the it could really embold ist (like I did it in

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:52:31PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Again, because arabic seems to be vanished in my first posting, I dont know why. Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it is very well known and very common (at least for muslims in germany) - and it is very nice, of course, this is an question of flavor. I know

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:53:00PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: Again, because arabic seems to be vanished in my first posting, I dont know why. Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it is very well known and very common (at least for muslims in germany) - and

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
It is my believe that Unicode has the wrong properties for Arabic standalone Hamza; in short you should just type a regular Hamza in the middle of the word and it will get positioned correctly. Placing a combining Hamza over a Tatweel to “fake” it is wrong IMO. So in Amiri you just type

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Ondřej Hošek
Hi Huseyin, On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: If I put the same arabic into CorelDraw, it prints a nice Unicode-Symbol for the number - see the JPG I have attached here, screenshot from CorelDraw, but ConTeXt ignores the brackets and prints just a verys

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi Ondra, thanks for your help. Apparently, replacing a number enclosed in ornate parentheses (U+FD3E and U+FD3F) with a number in the end of ayah ornament is a specialty of the UthmanicHafs font. If I input the digit (e.g. U+0662) and then the special non-printable end of ayah character

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Thanks, that works fine: \definefont[arabicamiri][file:amiri-regular.ttf*arabic at 15pt] \definefont[arabicuth][file:UthmanicHafs1Ver09.ttf*arabic at 17pt] \def\eoa#1{#1\char06DD} \starttext \setupalign[r2l] \arabicuth لأَفَبِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدْهِنُونَ ﴿٨١﴾\eoa \stoptext Now I