Arabic and Latin hemistiches
Dear gang, Re: Arabic poetry thread: Hans has just implemented high-level support for hemistiches and caesuras (using here the technical names for the style of poetry structure used in Arabic and other classical literature). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemistich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura With the latest beta, run the attached file. The module m-hemistich.mkiv also has a demo inside. For Arabic, note the tatweel across columns (only manual for now). The separator option with \hemistiches is probably more useful for Latin and Greek classical literature etc where the separator occurs on every line; the \hemistichescaesura option is probably more useful for Arabic where there are only occasional connectors across columns. Could one of you kindly add a page with this info to the wiki? Much thanks and enjoy! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
Idris, that's awesome news - I would have never imagined for something like this to happen so quickly. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run (probably my own fault). So far I'd been working with TeXLive. Now to try this out, I installed ConTeXt standalone and then issued "first-setup.bat --modules='m-hemistich'" (tried 't-hemistich' as well, and yes, Windows - shame on me). It still gives the error message "resolvers > modules > 'hemistich' is not found", though. What am I missing? Cheers, J.R. On 29 August 2013 22:34, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد < ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
Dear gang,
Re: Arabic poetry thread:
Hans has just implemented high-level support for hemistiches and caesuras (using here the technical names for the style of poetry structure used in Arabic and other classical literature).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Hemistichhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemistich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Caesurahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura
With the latest beta, run the attached file. The module m-hemistich.mkiv also has a demo inside.
For Arabic, note the tatweel across columns (only manual for now). The separator option with \hemistiches is probably more useful for Latin and Greek classical literature etc where the separator occurs on every line; the \hemistichescaesura option is probably more useful for Arabic where there are only occasional connectors across columns.
Could one of you kindly add a page with this info to the wiki? Much thanks and enjoy!
Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
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On 8/30/2013 12:48 AM, J. R. Schmid wrote:
Idris,
that's awesome news - I would have never imagined for something like this to happen so quickly. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run (probably my own fault). So far I'd been working with TeXLive. Now to try this out, I installed ConTeXt standalone and then issued "first-setup.bat --modules='m-hemistich'" (tried 't-hemistich' as well, and yes, Windows - shame on me). It still gives the error message "resolvers > modules > 'hemistich' is not found", though. What am I missing?
it's an m- module just try this: context --global m-hemistich.mkiv if that produces a file you should start your docs with \usemodule[hemistich] % no m- (using the command line to load modules is only needed for special cases) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
There seems to be something more fundamental wrong with my setup.
When I do that, I get:
! I can't find file `m-hemistich.mkiv'.
Isn't "first-setup.bat --modules='m-hemistich'" supposed to install the
module?
On 30 August 2013 02:10, Hans Hagen
On 8/30/2013 12:48 AM, J. R. Schmid wrote:
Idris,
that's awesome news - I would have never imagined for something like this to happen so quickly. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run (probably my own fault). So far I'd been working with TeXLive. Now to try this out, I installed ConTeXt standalone and then issued "first-setup.bat --modules='m-hemistich'" (tried 't-hemistich' as well, and yes, Windows - shame on me). It still gives the error message "resolvers > modules > 'hemistich' is not found", though. What am I missing?
it's an m- module
just try this:
context --global m-hemistich.mkiv
if that produces a file you should start your docs with
\usemodule[hemistich] % no m-
(using the command line to load modules is only needed for special cases)
Hans
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, J. R. Schmid wrote:
There seems to be something more fundamental wrong with my setup. When I do that, I get:
! I can't find file `m-hemistich.mkiv'.
Isn't "first-setup.bat --modules='m-hemistich'" supposed to install the module?
From what I understand from Hans's message, m-hemistich is part of the ConTeXt distribution, so you just need to update your distribution to install it (i.e., just run first-setup.bat)
The --modules switch in first-setup is for third-party modules (those starting with t- ) Aditya
From what I understand from Hans's message, m-hemistich is part of the ConTeXt distribution, so you just need to update your distribution to install it (i.e., just run first-setup.bat)
That's what I understood from the ConTeXt Standalone wiki page, and also why I'm so confused about this - my Standalone installation is brand new, and I started it roughly 3 hours after Hans' post about the new module. I just ran first-setup.bat again, but it still doesn't find the module. Is there a separate source/repository/etc. that needs to be specified?
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:07:48 -0600, J. R. Schmid
That's what I understood from the ConTeXt Standalone wiki page, and also why I'm so confused about this - my Standalone installation is brand new, and I started it roughly 3 hours after Hans' post about the new module. I just ran first-setup.bat again, but it still doesn't find the module. Is there a separate source/repository/etc. that needs to be specified?
Look here (where the beginning of the path may be different on your machine/OS): C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\base If m-hemistich.mkiv is there, you have updated the distribution. If not, you have not updated the distribution. Another way: Look at a log file from any run and look at the date to verify that you have updated. Here's mine: ConTeXt ver: 2013.08.26 16:41 If you have an older date, you need to update. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
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