Re: [NTG-context] a few questions on Arabtex

R. Ermers wrote:

Dear friends,

I have been trying again to get Arabtex running. I got the most recent version of apatch.sty etc. There are some problems.

Question 1. context gets stuck When using Arabtex with Context (which I prefer now), the run stops on a command in apatch, \hc, referring to hepatch. Arabtex works normally with Latex, though. I already asked Prof. Lagally, but he wrote me that he believes the bug is probably related to Context.

Question 2. question mark The Arabic question mark does not work: \ results in an error, I am not sure, but I believe the question mark is remapped to something else (perhaps something unicode-ish) which Arabtex cannot handle.

Does anybody have a clue?

Regards,

Robert Ermers

%%%%%%% Question 1 (17.09.2001))) (D:\tex\localtexmf\tex\arabtex\./apatch.sty ! Undefined control sequence.

i checked your file here, and after removing arabtex from texmf-local (1999 patch version) i now havea 2005 patch version from tex live); it seems that your version is somewhere in between [2001 patch version] so ... at eurotex 2005 i discussed a few things with Klaus Lagally and we are both aware of dependencies and ways to make arabtex and context working, so ... first bring your arabtex in sync (take the version from the tex live dvd) loading : Context Font Macros / ArabTeX support (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/arabtex.sty (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/aconfig.sty 3.08 get ArabTeX configuration (01.11.1998)) 3.11 ArabTeX main module (22.08.2003) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/arabaux.sty 3.11 auxiliary macros for ArabTeX (21.05.2003)) (c:\data\develop\context\sources/pdfr-ec.tex) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/acmd.sty 3.11 Arabic command processing (20.08.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/afonts.sty) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/ascan.sty 3.11 standard ZDMG input encoding (22.08.2003) (ArabTeX) scanner for code `arabtex' installed. (ArabTeX) input encoding set to ArabTeX standard conventions.) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/aparse.sty 3.11 get syllables (26.05.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/awrite.sty 3.11 build output word (05.06.2003) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/xarbsymb.sty 3.07 symbolic output encoding (15.07.1998)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/arabskel.sty 3.10 character skeleton definitions (04.06.2000)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/xarbskel.sty 3.09 character skeleton definitions (17.07.1999)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/aboxes.sty 3.11 build output boxes (28.05.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/arabtoks.sty 3.09 ArabTeX CS token definitions (17.07.1999)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/arabchrs.sty 3.07 letter token definitions (11.07.1998))) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/aligs.sty 3.11 compute ligatures (26.05.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/aoutput.sty 3.10 build output lines (04.06.2000)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/abidir.sty 3.11 bidirectional linebreaking (22.08.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/atrans.sty 3.11 generate the transliteration (14.06.2003) (ArabTeX) ZDMG transliteration.) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/alatex.sty) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/abjad.sty 3.11 abjad numerals (26.04.2003)) (c:\data\develop/tex\texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/apatch.sty ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------