Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt. (Rik Kabel)

2014-05-03 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2014-05-03 17:16, Michael Ash wrote: Thank you very much for the reply. I switched to ConTeXt standalone and now it is working. Best, Michael This works: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][script=hebr,ccmp=yes] \setmainfont[Ezra SIL SR][features=hebrew] \setupdire

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt. (Rik Kabel)

2014-05-03 Thread Michael Ash
Thank you very much for the reply. I switched to ConTeXt standalone and now it is working. Best, Michael This works: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][script=hebr,ccmp=yes] \setmainfont[Ezra SIL SR][features=hebrew] \setupdirections[bidi=on] \starttext בְרֵאשִ֖ית בָרָ֣

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2014-05-02 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2014-05-02 14:36, Michael Ash wrote: May I bump? The following code used to work, but now it gives an error: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][mode=node,script=hebr,language=dflt,mark=yes,ccmp=yes] \setmainfont[Ezra SIL SR][features=hebrew] \setupdirections[bidi=on]

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Ash
May I bump? The following code used to work, but now it gives an error: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][mode=node,script=hebr,language=dflt,mark=yes,ccmp=yes] \setmainfont[Ezra SIL SR][features=hebrew] \setupdirections[bidi=on] \starttext בְרֵאשִ֖ית בָרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2014-04-30 Thread Michael Ash
This seems to have broken in my latest upgrade. The diacriticals (vowels) are no longer centered under the Hebrew lettes. They are now misaligned again. Also, the script=hebr option in definefontfeature now generates an error (see the original code in the second message). The following code work

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ash
There is a nice answer from W. Schuster to the vowel placement question in the archives at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/059969.html (I didn't find it because the subject is "Misaligned Marks" rather than "Hebrew vowel placement" but it resolves the question. (Idris's suggestions re

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/17/2013 6:42 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: \definefontfeature [silezra] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=hbr, mark=yes,ccmp=yes] \definedfont[EzraSIL*silezra at 14pt]לָכֵן it's 'hebr' (otherwise no proper mark placement) \starttext \definefontfeature [s

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:31:12 -0600, Michael Ash wrote: Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt except for the vowel placement. Any suggestions there? Thank you again. You probably need the opentype features activated. Ezra has two features from what I can tell, so try something like this

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ash
Thank you. The unicode text looked good (although reversed left-to-right as I sent it) in my sent mail, and it looked perfect (corrected right-to-left) in your response. But it did not look good in the digest email (all the letters were convered to ?'s). Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt exce

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Greetings, Michael, On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:11 -0600, Michael Ash wrote: Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list? Your Unicode text came through perfectly: \textdir TRT \hebrew לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָב

Re: [NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ash
PS I see that the Hebrew text did not come through the list email (at least not on the version that I received). Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list? Best, Michael On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > I am new to ConTeXt and very impressed. Much thanks

[NTG-context] Hebrew vowel placement in ConTeXt.

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ash
I am new to ConTeXt and very impressed. Much thanks to Hans Hagen and Idris Samawi Hamid for an excellent introduction. I am using the Hebrew Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Fonts. My question concerns the placement of the Hebrew vowel points ("niqqud"). For most letters, the vowel points are placed t