Salaam, Talal,
See below:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:32:44 -0600, talazem@fastmail.fm
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.
I'm on the move, but try these keys in the appropriate structure commands: numberconversion=arabicnumerals numberconversion=abjadnumerals Failing that, a workaround is to use the m-translate module, and define a translation for each the ten digits. But numberconversion=arabicnumerals is supposed to work. Wassalaam Idris PS \start-stopsection is now standard (\section is still there, but...)
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 ===== ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
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