Good evening! I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points between the glyphs instead of thereunder. — So my question is, does anybody have experience with the use of Arial for typesetting Hebrew? Kinde regards Willi
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:47:24PM +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points between the glyphs instead of thereunder.
Example, please :-) The following, adapted from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew#Hebrew, works well from me: ---- cut before \starttext \definedfont[name:arial*hebrew] Hello, World! \setupalign[r2l] בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. \stoptext ---- cut after Best, ARrthur
Thank you Arthur for your reply, Looking at your result it is indeed ok. On my laptop (MacOS) and my brother’s (Ubuntu), the described problem occurs. -- I thought already, it is related to the font itself. I tried in the meantime Liberation-Regular-Sans which gives the right result. Thank you for your input! Willi
On 4 Mar 2019, at 08:12, Arthur Reutenauer
wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:47:24PM +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
I have a little project for preparing a vocabulary for an Ivrith student. — The text should be typeset with Arial. However, when I try to use it I get the vowel points between the glyphs instead of thereunder.
Example, please :-)
The following, adapted from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew#Hebrew, works well from me:
---- cut before \starttext
\definedfont[name:arial*hebrew] Hello, World!
\setupalign[r2l] בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד.
\stoptext ---- cut after
Best,
ARrthur
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