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Mohammad Hossein Bateni mailto:bateni@gmail.com 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