On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Is it possible to pass a character to another in MKIV, I mean, like
> XeTeX in which one can pass one unicode character to another one (this
> is done in some mapping files with some lines in it of the form
> U+0030 <> U+06F0 )
There definitely is a way, but I don't know why you would want to do
remap numbers on font level. You need such hacks in LaTeX where
changing page numbers is a pain, but I would do that with conversions
in ConTeXt.
"arabic" (starting with U+0660) is already defined. If you need
U+06F0, you might need to do minor modification in core-con.*, but try
with normal arabic first.
\setuppagenumbering
[conversion=arabicnumerals]
Here are the needed modifications:
core-con.lua:
['arabic'] = {
0x0660, 0x0661, 0x0662, 0x0663, 0x0664,
0x0665, 0x0666, 0x0667, 0x0668, 0x0669
},
you need to add the same for extendedarabic
['extendedarabic'] = {
0x0660, 0x0661, 0x0662, 0x0663, 0x0664,
0x0665, 0x0666, 0x0667, 0x0668, 0x0669
},
core-con.mkiv:
\def\arabicnumerals #1{\ctxlua{converters.alphabetic(\number#1,"arabic")}}
\def\extendedarabicnumerals
#1{\ctxlua{converters.alphabetic(\number#1,"extendedarabic")}}
\defineconversion [arabicnumerals] [\arabicnumerals]
\defineconversion [extendedarabicnumerals] [\extendedarabicnumerals]
(You also need to modify core-con.mkii if you want the same feature to
be available in XeTeX afterwards.)
And then you should be able to use
\setuppagenumbering
[conversion=extendedarabicnumerals]
You can also set up itemize to use arabic numbers. What exactly would
you like to do with those numbers? Then you can probably get a more
precise answer.
Mojca
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