Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:45 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>>> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ??
>
>>> These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of
>>> Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv.
>> Hm, reminds me of conventions where you place currency symbols -
>> depending on if you live in a economist/accountant surrounding...
>>
>> Do you think some automated handling of such is possible at all?
>
> One can already handle this sort of thing using Omega Translation
> Processes, which luaTeX supports. For example, there is an otp which makes
> sure that numeral-strings are always treated as LR, otherwise 1234 would
> come out as 4321. I suppose translating these rules into lua and/or
> opentype rules should be easy...
i can add this to the arab analyzer (just inject direction nodes around
numbers)
Hans
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