Re: [NTG-context] \mainlanguage[pe]

7 Jul 2016

      While you're at it, could you also add something like jday, jmonth, jmm,
jyear, etc. to use the Jalali calendar instead of the Gregorian?  I see
that the—commented—conversion code exists in core-con.lua.  I am willing to
provide test cases for the conversion.

Thanks!
—MHB

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni 
wrote:
...
Wolfgang & Hans,
In customizing the date, is there a way to use a number converter on day
and year?  In particular, I'd like to apply persiandecimals conversion on
them.  (I have a similar question regarding \currentime.)
Thanks!
—Hossein
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Mohammad Hossein Bateni 
6. Juli 2016 um 20:02
Hello,
This was lost in the other thread, so I'm starting a fresh one dedicated
to the question.
1) \showinstalledlanguages does not show pe/persian/fa or anything like
that but it has several arabic variants.  was this dropped in MkIV or was
there never a persian language environment even in MkII?  I thought there
were translated labels for Farsi somewhere.
2) In the following MWE, ad-hoc hyphenation using \- works and leads to
hyphenation.  However, specifying the pattern at the beginning does not
have any effect.  Am I missing something?
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[dejavusans][features=arabic,range=arabic]
\setupalign[r2l]
\showframe
\hyphenation{سازمان‌-دهی}
\starttext
%% The above pattern is not used here and the long word moves into the
margin.
\dorecurse{14}{سلام }
سازمان‌دهی
مناسب.
%% It does work here, though.
\dorecurse{14}{سلام }
سازمان\-دهی
مناسب.
\stoptext
How can one create a new language?  The languages manual
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/languages-mkiv.pdf suggests
that this is possible.  Does that mean I need to send the request to
Hans/Wolfgang to create the new entry or can one do so dynamically?  Beside
the issue of sorting in indices, etc.—which I will get to in due
time—having an entry for language pe/persian seems to be necessary to
*properly* use \setuplabeltext, etc.  Is that correct?
You can create a new language (and synonyms for it) with the
\installlanguage command, below is a slightly modified version of the
arabic entry. You can change the values for leftquotation etc. and send the
result to Hans.
% this goes into mult-sys.mkiv
\definesystemconstant {persian}         \definesystemconstant {fa}
% this goes into lang-def.mkiv
\installlanguage
  [\s!fa]
  [\c!spacing=\v!broad,
   \c!leftsentence=\emdash,
   \c!rightsentence=\emdash,
   \c!leftsubsentence=\emdash,
   \c!rightsubsentence=\emdash,
   \c!leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote,
   \c!rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote,
   \c!leftquotation=\upperleftdoublesixquote,
   \c!rightquotation=\upperrightdoubleninequote,
   \c!date={\v!day,\space,\v!month,\space,\v!year}]
\installlanguage [\s!persian] [\s!fa]
\installlanguage[\s!fa-ir][\c!default=\s!fa]
The default labels for the languages are stored in lang-txt.lua, you can
add entries for persian and send the modified file to Hans.
Wolfgang
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