All,
Having abandoned apache's FOP, I've now been trying to get my arms
around XML typesetting with conTeXt with the help of Thomas's
excellent tutorial at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml. With some
difficulty I got the philostratus.xml/lorem ipsum example to work,
save for errors like this from the \definemargins command:
! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode.
(The marginal notations are typeset, but so are the distance arguments)
What I really need help with, however, is Arabic. Can anyone point me
to a 'hello world' example of how to typeset TEIxml in Arabic using
conTeXt? My TeX skills are very out of date and were never much to
begin with, and I'm having a devil of a time getting my head around
the welter of available documentation. I haven't even yet worked out
how to point context at suitable fonts, or how to invoke them in the
--environment .tex file.
[I'm using the MacTeX-2010 Distribution on OSX 10.5.8. It took me some
time do discover that I had to do:
$ luatools --generate
before I could run context at the command line thus:
$ context --environment=tei-style philostratus.xml]
Any hints, examples, or pointers to the relevant documentation would
be gratefully received.
Thanks,
Jon
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