Re: [NTG-context] updating to new release

2008-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Taco. After installing ConTeXt 2008-08-04, I have cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex and texmf-var/web2c/xetex Installing ConTeXt 2008-08-15 has the same files in the same places, though I gather that it replaces cont-en.fmt in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex with

Re: [NTG-context] Non-printable Unicode control characters

2008-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: Unicode has many control characters that only control text behaviour and shouldn't be rendered visually in the text, such as Bidi_Control and Join_Control chars (see http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/PropList.txt and http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html)

Re: [NTG-context] Enabling character mirroring without enabling implicit bidi

2008-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently, \enablecharactermirroring[1] also enables implicit bidi, but, unfortunately, current ConTeXt bidi implementation isn't very useful. I know this is work in progress, but I like to be able to have simple character mirroring i.e. \textdir TRT will mirror all

Re: [NTG-context] Some Arabic ligatures get rendered twice

2008-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: Some Arabic ligatures get rendered twice, I think this happens when a ligature can be divided into subligatures, say ABC ligature where the font has an AB ligature, in this case A+B+C get rendered as ABC+AB. hm, somthing fishy in the lig insertion code, i'll fix it

[NTG-context] grouped sections and footnotes

2008-08-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Hans, I am using a module -- non-distributed as far as I know -- created by Wolfgang. It provides grouped sectioning and footnotes: startstop-t.tex== \unprotect \def\se{se} \def\definegroupedsection[#1]% {\setvalue{\e!start#1}[##1]%

Re: [NTG-context] Non-printable Unicode control characters

2008-08-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:53:06 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Unicode has many control characters that only control text behaviour and shouldn't be rendered visually in the text, such as Bidi_Control and Join_Control chars (see