Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-23 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Huseyin, ···date: 2012-11-22, Thursday···from: H. Özoguz··· Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl: What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully functional in mkiv. But as long as you need the streams to appear as columns on the same page, as seems to

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-23 Thread H. Özoguz
Am 23.11.2012 15:17, schrieb ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl: The table*is* the workaround ;P As long as you don?t mind being limited to columns on one page, the tabulate syntax and the restrictions on the input order, you?ll definitely be fine. The additional code was supposed to show how to

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-23 Thread Philipp Gesang
···date: 2012-11-23, Friday···from: H. Özoguz··· Am 23.11.2012 15:17, schrieb ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl: The table*is* the workaround ;P As long as you don?t mind being limited to columns on one page, the tabulate syntax and the restrictions on the input order, you?ll definitely be fine.

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-22 Thread H. Özoguz
Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl: What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully functional in mkiv. But as long as you need the streams to appear as columns on the same page, as seems to be the case, there is a cheap workaround using the*tabulate*

[NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-21 Thread H. Özoguz
Hello, many books I layout have arabic words or complete paragraphs in it - where the main language is german. For example there is a book, which is completely in arabic with german translation. My present method to write in Arabic is, for sure, not the best, f.e. I have problems with

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt

2012-11-21 Thread Philipp Gesang
···date: 2012-11-21, Wednesday···from: H. Özoguz··· First: How to divide the page into a left part and a right part, two wright german on the left side and arabic on the right. Is \paragraph the best way for it? What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully functional in