Never mind. After more word combinations when searching the archives, I came across Wolfgang’s answer here: gmane.comp.tex.context/85673 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/85673, in which he says to use the \defineconversion command. E.g.: \defineconversion [myconversion] [۱,۲,۳,۴,۵,۶,۷,۸,۹,۱۰, ۱۱,۱۲,۱۳,۱۴,۱۵,۱۶,۱۷,۱۸,۱۹,۲۰, ۲۱,۲۲,۲۳,۲۴,۲۵,۲۶,۲۷,۲۸,۲۹,۳۰] \setuppagenumber[numberconversion=myconversion] Of course, one can add the same to setups for the other matters as well: \setuphead[chapter,title,section,subject][conversion=myconversion] \setuplinenumbering[conversion=myconversion] \setupnotations[footnote][numberconversion=myconversion] \setupnotations[linenote][numberconversion=myconversion] etc. This actually provides lots of flexibility, as you can fine-tune various footnote streams by assigning different scripts, etc. Talal
On 3 Aug 2015, at 00:32, talazem@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-numbering, and footnote numbers? In the case of Arabic, this means using the so-called “mashriqi”, or “Arabic-Indic”/“Arabic-Hindi” numerals. Is there some option when defining the font family? (I would have thought that using “\mainlanguage[arabic]” would have done it.) Of course, I am using a font that contains the numbers of that script.
Mind you, if I manually type such numbers into the body of my text, they appear correctly. MWE below.
Best wishes, Talal
===== \setuppapersize[A6] \mainlanguage[arabic] \definefontfamily[mainface][serif][ALMFixed][features=arabic,range=arabic,] \setupbodyfont [mainface,10pt]
\starttext \showframe \righttoleft
%\setupdirections[bidi=global,method=two]
\section{section one} \startlinenumbering \input ward \stoplinenumbering \footnote{I would like the footnote number — like the page number, section number, and linenumbers — to be in the so-called Arabic-Indic script.}
\section{section two} مرحباً بالعالم. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠ مرحباً بالعالم. \stoptext =====