On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> Dear Mojca,
> Thanks for your complete answer. In fact, in persian (and maybe
> arabic) documents, we need every digit be in persian,
But when you write, you probably write numbers in persian already?
> like chapter,
> section,
\chapter and \section are a bit buggy as far as numbering is
concerned, but you can use
\setuphead
[section]
[conversion=arabicnumerals]
> figure, and even formula numbers
Try
\defineconversion [ar] [numbers] [\arabicnumerals]
This one doesn't work on sections (same argument as Aditya pointed
out), but it does quite a lot already :)
Can you try it out and report? I didn't try it out (no idea how to
work with Arabic), but I consider it a much cleaner approach than
redefining characters in fonts.
(You could also use \setupformulas[conversion=arabicnumerals], similar
for tables, ..., but in theory you should not need anything else but
\defineconversion [ar] [numbers] [\arabicnumerals] in lang-ara.tex if
that's of general interest.)
> (most of the people even
> prefer persian digits in formulas which is possible in xetex).
> As you know, the Mapping=farsidigits in a font definition works
> perfect in xelatex.
I would say that ConTeXt lacks a nice interface for that at the
moment. There is tlig/trep feature that works that way (remaps ' to
rightquote for example), but it's spread all over the place and might
be likely to change. One option are fea files (like the one Idris
pointed you to).
Still, I would go for "conversion", not for redefining fonts.
Redefining fonts is just an ugly hack that happens to solve a problem
temporary. People use it just because it's too difficult to do it in
some other way.
Mojca
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