Am 01.01.23 um 10:21 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
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:
I also thought I heard about it several years ago. The article makes it
sound like news, that might be the perspective of the US scholars or a
necessary means to get funded. But the oldest sources quoted in
Wikipedia are from 1971 and 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script
so when there are proper fonts, as:
https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/
https://software.sil.org/harmattan/
I don’t dare to ask about the Husayni fonts... ;)
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 but only users and usage can prove that.
Thank you for your insights!
Of course it’s a matter of use(r)s.
All the best for a happy new year!
Hraban
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