Am 02.10.2010 um 02:16 schrieb Talal Al-Azem:
> My apologies if I'm dumbing down the level of discussion here. But I'm trying
> to get my head around fonts and bidirectionality using ConTeXt MkIV (as a
> rather unsophisticated user, not as a developer).
>
> To begin with, since it's all bit much at once, I'm trying to use
> simplefonts. I am unclear how to establish English as my language and its
> font as my main font (using the default font), and Arabic as a secondary
> language (using Scheherazade).
>
> What would I change in the ara-sty environment found on
> wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew? Or, if I don't need to use this,
> should I define my own macro in my tex document for directionality?
>
> I'm probably making a mess of some basic things here, but could use some
> help. I have working familiarity with Fontspec over on the XeLaTeX side of
> things, but the sparse documentation of simplefonts is leading to my
> uncertainty as how to proceed.
\usemodule[simplefonts]
%\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
\setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
\starttext
\input knuth
\textdir TRT أهلا بالعالم!
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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