On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:48:32PM -0800, Jon Crump wrote:
Dear all,
I'm gradually getting my head around using ConTeXt to typeset texts marked up in TEI/XML. I'm trying to typeset an English/Arabic text and I keep breaking my teeth on the Arabic. I'm trying to do what I can with the macTeX 2010 distribution, but the documentation on the conTeXt wiki has me confused. The amount I don't know about TeX is truly daunting, but clearly there are some basic things about font management that I don't understand.
I thought I had found a minimal example in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew that I could use as a starting point. After saving it locally as ara-sty.tex I tried to typeset:
This page is a bit outdated, things can be done in simpler ways now. I've typeset a small Arabic book in ConTeXt last year (and should be working on a small one now) but I use my own BiDi implementation so my setup is a bit different than the "standard" way. If I got that book done in ConTeXt I'll try to write some updated examples and publish the TeX files of the book for anyone interested. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer