Re: [NTG-context] Kashide in ConTeXt

2013-09-12 Thread Vafa Khalighi
, 10 Sep 2013 09:34:23 -0600, Vafa Khalighi persian-...@tug.org wrote: it is about stretching words. It can be done manually, of course, by just manual insertions of U+0640. Did you mean something else by 'manual'? As for automatic, it is in the pipeline and my hope is it will be done

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-12 Thread Vafa Khalighi
There is one more problem with the default method: \starttext \setupalign[r2l] \definefont[arabicfont][Arial*arabic at 20pt] \setupdirections[bidi=global,method=default] 1. \stoptext from right to left perspective it prints 1. (dot after digit 1) as .1 (dot before digit 1) however

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-11 Thread Vafa Khalighi
expected result. I am not sure if this is the side effect of using \hbox dir TRT. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Vafa Khalighi persian-...@tug.org wrote: Sorry that is not fixed. If you type two of these, the second one will be broken. \starttext \setupalign[r2l] \definefont[arabicfont

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-11 Thread Vafa Khalighi
دومی \stopitemize \stoptext and if I swap right and left parentheses, I get the following error: error: .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/typo-dha.lua:184: attempt to index local 'current' (a nil value) On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Vafa Khalighi persian-...@tug.org wrote: I

[NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-10 Thread Vafa Khalighi
: is it possible to change font automatically when luatex sees a LTR word? Thanks Vafa Khalighi test.tex Description: TeX document test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ If your question is of interest to others

[NTG-context] Kashide in ConTeXt

2013-09-10 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Hi How do you use automatic and manual Kashide for Arabic in ConTeXt? I could not find any documentation on this. Thanks Vafa Khalighi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Kashide in ConTeXt

2013-09-10 Thread Vafa Khalighi
it is about stretching words. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 9/10/2013 2:59 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: Hi How do you use automatic and manual Kashide for Arabic in ConTeXt? I could not find any documentation on this. i have no clue what

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-10 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Vafa Khalighi On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Vafa Khalighi persian-...@tug.org wrote: Thanks. That is now fixed. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 9/10/2013 2:57 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: Hi The following document shows the wrong behaviour (the second

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-10 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Thanks. That is now fixed. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 9/10/2013 2:57 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: Hi The following document shows the wrong behaviour (the second parentheses is mirrored incorrectly and it should be after the number not before

[NTG-context] multipage tabular

2009-07-17 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Does ConTeXt allow users to typeset multipage tabular and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

2009-07-17 Thread Vafa Khalighi
and if it does, then can someone please tell me what kind of algorithm ConTeXt uses for these? ??? In TeX you can not have multi page tabular unless you program something. I want to know about the ConTeXt algorithm of doing this. In LaTeX there are two packages longtable and

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tabular

2009-07-17 Thread Vafa Khalighi
thanks heaps for the details ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage :

Re: [NTG-context] How to prevent empty page after MPpage?

2009-07-13 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Thanks a lot!!! The magic apparently works. I don't understand what exactly the obeylines macro does (it seems that it just makes sure that none of line endings get lost, not even inside definition itself). sometimes when you typeset a piece of text like poems, you actually want to go to

Re: [NTG-context] from latex pstricks to context

2009-07-13 Thread Vafa Khalighi
What is the sense of \startPSTRICKS ... \stopPSTRICKS ? Maybe he meant: \startpspicture \stoppspicture The actual macros of pstricks are defined in pstricks.tex and that is all Plain TeX. I myself generally would do something like this in Plain TeX \input pstricks \pspicture(0,0)(2,2)