Am 05.05.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Michael Ash <m...@econs.umass.edu>: > ... see message 56606 > <http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg56606.html> in the > list archive. This is not the post-simplefonts solution, but the > pre-simplefonts solution. It does allow much better control over all of > the fonts that make up the typeface (using ConTeXt terminology). > > If you set only some Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic, and especially if you do not > need font variants (bold, italic, ...) you might prefer to define a > single font. > > Thank you very much again. This was helpful, and here is my minimal working > example: > > > \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][script=hebr,ccmp=yes] > \definefont [myhebrew] [SILEOTSR.ttf*hebrew] > \setupdirections[bidi=on,method=two] > > \starttext > Here is the first line of the Bible. > > {\myhebrew בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ > } > \stoptext > > > > I still have some questions. It took me a long time to understand that > > \definefont [myhebrew] [SILEOTSR.ttf*hebrew] > > would use the fontfeature "hebrew" that I had defined together with the font > file SILEOTSR.ttf and assign this pairing to the nickname "myhebrew". Rik's > example also has "sa 1" which I do not understand. > > \definefontfeature [aramaic] [default][ccmp=yes,script=hebr] > \definefont [aramaic] [KeterYG-Medium.ttf*aramaic sa 1] > > Is the syntax for definefont using "*" documented somewhere? Is it similar > to definefontsynonym at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX (and > below)?
You can find a description about the options in the old and new fonts manuals: - http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf - http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf Wolfgang
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