On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
I just read this: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing...
And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of typesetting this variant of Arabic. (Just out of curiosity, I can’t read any Arabic and don’t know any African language.) Afaiks that script has been known fro a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script http://www.currah.download/pages/ajamisenegal/index.html#police so when there are proper fonts, as: https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/ https://software.sil.org/harmattan/ it should be doable. The script is supported by unicode. I get the impression that the arabic scipt is mostly used getting the way the languages sounds on paper so vowels matter. There is mentioning of transliteration and so that might need some specific support. Nothing tex (context) can't do bnut only users and usage can prove that. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------