Dear Wolfgang and Khaled,
Thank you both for your replies. This has been very helpful. May I ask one
further newbie question of simplefonts: how do I change the font for just the
"fallback" font, without affecting the mainfont? Is there a way to do this by
setting the size in points, or in scale (percentage), or some other fashion?
In fontspec, i was accustomed to something like:
\newfontfamily{\arfont}[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.66,WordSpace=1.66]{Scheherazade-Regular}
I am sure there are equivalents for these feature (size, scale, wordspace);
I've seen many features in the simplefonts pdf. But i'm unsure how to define
something like "arfont" using simplefonts.
Many thanks,
Talal
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
>
> %\setmainfont[Antykwa Poltawskiego]
> \setmainfontfallback[Scheherazade][range={arabic,arabicpresentationformsa,arabicpresentationformsb,arabicsupplement}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \input knuth
>
> \textdir TRT ???? ???????!
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:25:12 +0200
> From: Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org>
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] mixed English and Arabic using Simplefonts?
> Message-ID: <20101002092512.ga1...@khaled-laptop>
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> On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> 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}]
>
> I think there is no need for presentation forms, they are deprecated
> symbols not used for entering text.
>
> --
> Khaled Hosny
> Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
> Free font developer
>
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