On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:05:01PM +0100, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, > > If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with > Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default > settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular > fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent those specialist > typesetters who want particular features to be turned on, to do so > through appropriate mechanisms. > > As a basic user I am frustrated when using mkiv, that most declaration > of features are completely cryptic, and not being a specialist of OTF or > other font specifications, I don't know which features are essential for > writing and typesetting an article in Persian or any language using > Arabic alphabet.
I totally agree with you, more ever I hop that at some point in the future, just selecting certain language will be enough to get proper display of it, some thing like: \mainlanguage[arabic] \startext أهلا بالعالم! \stoptext Should be all what I user need to get an Arabic page. I can even imaging a script analyzer in MkIV that classifies input text and applies fonts/font features per script (Pango kinda does this), with may be some high level commands like: \setupbodyfont[arabic=foo,latin=bar] Which specifies the default font per script. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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