Hello, many books I layout have arabic words or complete paragraphs in it - where the main language is german. For example there is a book, which is completely in arabic with german translation. My present method to write in Arabic is, for sure, not the best, f.e. I have problems with arabic numbers (which are printed mirrored), problems with brackets and so on. I have two questions, hopefully there is an expert for questions concerning Arabic or similar quests: First: How to divide the page into a left part and a right part, two wright german on the left side and arabic on the right. Is \paragraph the best way for it? Second: Which is your recommended way to type arabic with ConTeXt? I add mine in this Mail, please give me advises to improve it. Thank you. Huseyin P.S.: If gridsetting with arabic is possible, then I would prefer that. But if not (see my non-gridsetting solution with \placeongrid), it's ok for me. Here an example of Arabic on the right, with german left under it (should be side-by-side, did not implemend the paragraph yet) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++\setuplayout[grid=yes]\setuplayout[grid=yes] \definefont[Sheh][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 17pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf \def\Arab[#1][#2]{ \placeongrid[top]{ \blank[0.2cm] \setupalign[r2l]\Sheh #1 \blank[0.3cm] } {\sl #2} \blank[big] } \starttext \Arab[فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ][Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide verleugnen?] \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++