Dear Hans, Hello, Thank you very much for your reply. With your code the Persian part disappears on my system unless I insert the following two lines after \definefontfeature: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][feature=persian] However the Persian characters still appears as isolated characters. Thanks, Mingranina On 8/7/13, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 8/7/2013 10:50 AM, Mingranina Gingranina wrote:

...

Dear All, Hello,

I am completely new to ConTeXt and after searching and exploring the ConTeXt Garden wiki pages and other resources thoroughly, I decided to write my first document in Persian which reads:

\enableregime [utf-8] \definefontfeature [persian] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes,liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes]

\usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][feature=persian]

\mainlanguage[pe] \setupbodyfont[arial,12pt]

\starttext \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT این یک آزمایش است. \pagedir TLT\bodydir TLT\pardir TLT\textdir TLT This is a test. \stoptext

As there are some UTF-8 characters in the document I have attached the document to this message too.

The problem is that on my system the Persian part of the output is a set of Persian Isolated characters, but on http://live.contextgarden.net the Persian part does not appear at all. Could somebody please let me know what am I doing wrong?

Here is a more minimal test:

\definefontfeature [persian] [arabic] % [...]

\mainlanguage[pe]

\starttext

\definedfont[arial*persian]

\setupalign[r2l]

این یک آزمایش است.

\setupalign[l2r]

This is a test.

\stoptext

If that works, you can try the simplefonts variant. Keep in mind that you need to end a paragraph with an empty line or \par because otherwise the last settings apply.

Hans

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On 8/7/2013 2:38 PM, Mingranina Gingranina wrote:

Dear Hans, Hello again,

I just noticed that your code works fine with Dejavusans TrueType font, but not with some other TrueType fonts.

in which case you use fonts that have no arabic shapes 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 08/07/2013 04:09 PM, Mingranina Gingranina wrote:

[...] For TrueType fonts which are in the directory '/usr/share/fonts/TTF/' everything works fine, but if the font is in '/usr/local/share/fonts/' then the code fails. Please note that I have already executed the commands:

OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts;/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts" mtxrun --script fonts --reload mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*

Hi Mingranina, are the fonts from /usr/local/share/fonts listed with the last command you mention? If you don’t have other issues, you can always move all fonts from /usr/local/share/fonts to /usr/share/fonts. This is an easy fix. Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Am 07.08.2013 um 12:38 schrieb Mingranina Gingranina :

Dear Hans, Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply. With your code the Persian part disappears on my system unless I insert the following two lines after \definefontfeature: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][feature=persian]

However the Persian characters still appears as isolated characters.

The name of the key is “features” and not “feature”. Wolfgang

Hi Mingranina, As Wolfgang said, if I fix the name of the key in \setmainfont (from « feature » to « features », see below), then your test works fine here (using Mac OS X 10.8.4, and ConTeXt ver: 2013.08.07 14:40 MKIV beta fmt: 2013.8.7). By the way in mkiv you don't need to add \enableregime[utf-8]: by default ConTeXt uses utf-8. \definefontfeature [persian] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes,liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][features=persian] %% ^^^^^^ \mainlanguage[pe] \setupbodyfont[arial,12pt] \starttext \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT این یک آزمایش است. \pagedir TLT\bodydir TLT\pardir TLT\textdir TLT This is a test. \stoptext Best regards: OK On 7 août 2013, at 12:38, Mingranina Gingranina wrote:

Dear Hans, Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply. With your code the Persian part disappears on my system unless I insert the following two lines after \definefontfeature: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][feature=persian]

However the Persian characters still appears as isolated characters.

Thanks, Mingranina

On 8/7/13, Hans Hagen wrote:

...

On 8/7/2013 10:50 AM, Mingranina Gingranina wrote:

...

Dear All, Hello,

I am completely new to ConTeXt and after searching and exploring the ConTeXt Garden wiki pages and other resources thoroughly, I decided to write my first document in Persian which reads:

\enableregime [utf-8] \definefontfeature [persian] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes,liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes]

\usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial][feature=persian]

\mainlanguage[pe] \setupbodyfont[arial,12pt]

\starttext \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT این یک آزمایش است. \pagedir TLT\bodydir TLT\pardir TLT\textdir TLT This is a test. \stoptext

As there are some UTF-8 characters in the document I have attached the document to this message too.

The problem is that on my system the Persian part of the output is a set of Persian Isolated characters, but on http://live.contextgarden.net the Persian part does not appear at all. Could somebody please let me know what am I doing wrong?

Here is a more minimal test:

\definefontfeature [persian] [arabic] % [...]

\mainlanguage[pe]

\starttext

\definedfont[arial*persian]

\setupalign[r2l]

این یک آزمایش است.

\setupalign[l2r]

This is a test.

\stoptext

If that works, you can try the simplefonts variant. Keep in mind that you need to end a paragraph with an empty line or \par because otherwise the last settings apply.

Hans

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