On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
I just read this:
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/
And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of typesetting this
variant of Arabic. (Just out of curiosity, I can’t read any Arabic and
don’t know any African language.)
Afaiks that script has been known fro a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script
http://www.currah.download/pages/ajamisenegal/index.html#police
so when there are proper fonts, as:
https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/
https://software.sil.org/harmattan/
it should be doable. The script is supported by unicode. I get the
impression that the arabic scipt is mostly used getting the way the
languages sounds on paper so vowels matter. There is mentioning of
transliteration and so that might need some specific support. Nothing
tex (context) can't do bnut only users and usage can prove that.
Hans
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