Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread DALALYAN Arnak
Dear All, I confirm that there are two correct uppercase versions of և, the reformed spelling is ԵՎ, whereas the classical spelling is ԵՒ. Note that it has nothing to do with eastern or western Armenians, both versions of Armenian may use both versions of spelling. But the official language in

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Joseph Wright
On 30/04/2022 23:52, David Carlisle wrote: Something like this, I think. [image: image.png] \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{armenian} \setmainfont{DejaVu Sans} \ExplSyntaxOn \let\tuppercase\text_uppercase:n \ExplSyntaxOff \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Generally speaking - and I am speaking here very much as a novice on LaTeX and without any knowledge of Armenian one nearly always does better to decompose and normalise all UTF8 texts , then work on them and then only recompose. And I think here this approach would have worked out fine . Pet

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
շնորհակալություն – thank you for confirmation. I believe that there are people who know how to fix it. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml ne 1. 5. 2022 v 19:06 odesílatel DALALYAN Arnak napsal: > > Dear All, > > I confirm that there are two correct uppercase versions of և, t

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi all, I did not manage to create the link with a timestamp but I found the Coat of arms of Yerevan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_%D0%B0rms_of_Yerevan.svg The text on it is calligraphic but you should recognize 0535 0550 0535 054E 0531 0546. If you unfold the names in other la

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
OK, but I have to open it twice. First it jumps into advertisement and I have to play it and close it. The second attempt jumps to the advertisement again but then it goes to the timestamp and stays there. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml ne 1. 5. 2022 v 15:02 odesílatel Ph

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)
On 01/05/2022 13:27, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Hi all, as I wrote, my knowledge is based just on facebook and youtube and texts and videos on Omniglot. I can send you exact links to youtube videos but you should be fast, it is displayed for a second or two. Youtube URLs can include a timestamp, so

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi all, as I wrote, my knowledge is based just on facebook and youtube and texts and videos on Omniglot. I can send you exact links to youtube videos but you should be fast, it is displayed for a second or two. I think that the Eastern variant (Արևելահայերեն) is used in Armenia and the decompositi

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Joseph Wright
On 01/05/2022 13:10, Jonathan Kew wrote: Hi Zdeněk, Checking the Unicode character database[1], U+0587 is listed as having a *compatibility* decomposition to <0565,0582> (not 0587): 0587;ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE ECH YIWN;Ll;0;L; 0565 0582N; Likewise, the SpecialCasing.txt file[2] that

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kew
Hi Zdeněk, Checking the Unicode character database[1], U+0587 is listed as having a *compatibility* decomposition to <0565,0582> (not 0587): 0587;ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE ECH YIWN;Ll;0;L; 0565 0582N; Likewise, the SpecialCasing.txt file[2] that defines case mappings other than simple

Re: [XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

2022-05-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi David, when trying to explain it in a greater detail I found that the situation is even more complex. As I wrote, I follow Elena Yerevan on youtube and facebook so all what I know, I know from her videos, from her name written in both alphabets, from Wikipedia and from https://omniglot.com/writ