I have a lengthy text in English which occasionally uses Arabic place
names in brackets, e.g.
Khàbab ( خبب )is a Syrian town 50 km south of Damascus
The text is copy-pasted from a Word file, so I do not have to type the
Arabic as such, and would not know how to do that anyway.
Since I never usually have to work with Arabic script (though I do have
a font installed and recognised by ConTeXt (with the usual mtxrun
commands) I am not sure how to achieve this. There might be just half a
dozen of these place names involved in a text of some 300 pages worth.
The font, BTW is Arslan Wessam A.ttf
My humble attempt: I did the following in my preamble:
\definefallbackfamily [mainface] [sans] [aarslanwessama] [range=arabic]
The rest of the [mainface] setups are obviously western fonts. But the
fallbackfamily approach did nothing to help. I also tried:
Khàbab {\switchtobodyfont[aarslanwessama](خبب)} is a Syrian town 50 km
south of Damascus... but that did nothing either.
Am quite out of my depth with this one so any help would be appreciated.
Julian
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