On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Burak Emir
Hi,
First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far.
Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic.
What would I use?
I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some presentations for LuaTeX and typesetting Arabic was mentioned there as motivation. This is how I got to ConTeXt in the first place.
Omega is dead or nearly dead and part of the code is integrated in LuaTeX.
Trying the documentation, I ended up on the following page which says "TODO" http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew
I also searched mail archives, but the mails I found on this subject were from 2003, so I thought it is worth probing for an update.
Any news or hints appreciated.
The MkIV manual [1] has a section about arabic, you try the following code with LuaTeX or XeTeX (should work). \definefontfeature [arab-default] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \definefont[ArabFont][arabtype*arab-default at 18pt] \starttext Normal text. {\ArabFont Your arabic text.} \stoptext arabtype in \definefont is the name of your font and you should replace it with one available on your system. [1] http://pragma-ade.nl/show-man-41.htm Greetings Wolfgang