New subject: a few questions on Arabtex (cont.)

5 Jun 2006

      Dear friends,

I have been trying again to get Arabtex running. I got  the most recent 
version of apatch.sty etc. There are some problems.

Question 1. context gets stuck
When using Arabtex with Context (which I prefer now), the run stops on a 
command in apatch, \hc, referring to hepatch. Arabtex works normally 
with Latex, though. I already asked Prof. Lagally, but he wrote me that 
he believes the bug is probably related to Context.

Question 2. question mark
The Arabic question mark does not work: \ results in an error, I 
am not sure, but I believe the question mark is remapped to something 
else (perhaps something unicode-ish) which Arabtex cannot handle.

Does anybody have a clue?

Regards,

Robert Ermers

%%%%%%% Question 1
(17.09.2001))) (D:\tex\localtexmf\tex\arabtex\./apatch.sty
! Undefined control sequence.
l.190 \hc
          % default Hebrew font
?
(ArabTeX) version 3.11d (23.10.2003): second phase of patching)
(D:\tex\localtexmf\tex\arabtex\./hepatch.sty 3.10- patches for Hebrew
(17.09.2001))) (D:\tex\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-exa.tex)
(D:\tex\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-syn.tex)

%%%%%%%Question 2
(D:\tex\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-akb.tex)
systems         : begin file test at line 11
! Argument of \unp@ck@token has an extra }.
<inserted text>
                \par
<to be read again>
                   }
\putwordb@x ...ent \fi \setbox \wordb@x \hbox {#1}
                                                  \put@word
\a@@putword ...b@x {\xpa \arab@item \a@@word \@@ }
                                                  \fi \a@spacetrue \xpa 
\a@s...
\test@space ...space \nxp \next@token \a@@putword
                                                  \xpa \kill@space \else 
\xp...
<to be read again>
...
l.14 \
?
Runaway argument?
\sc@? \relax \else \ifx \sc@? -\set@skl \sk@B \else \ifx \sc@? |\set@skl 
\ETC.
! Paragraph ended before \unp@ck@token was complete.

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\usemodule[m][arabtex]
%\usemodule[m][hebtex]

\usetypescript[postscript]
\switchtotypeface[postscript]

\setarab
\vocalize
\newtanwin
\accentshigh
\ligsfalse
\novocalize

\starttext

\<hwlndI>

\
%\  %Use this to test the question mark

\startarabic
qfA nbk_A mn _dkr_A .hbIbI wmnzl

%hwlndI?  %unmark this to test the question mark
hwlndI"

\stoparabic

\stoptext

a few questions on Arabtex

R. Ermers

Hans Hagen

R. Ermers

R. Ermers

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