I have a lengthy text in English which occasionally uses Arabic place names in brackets, e.g. Khàbab ( خبب )is a Syrian town 50 km south of Damascus The text is copy-pasted from a Word file, so I do not have to type the Arabic as such, and would not know how to do that anyway. Since I never usually have to work with Arabic script (though I do have a font installed and recognised by ConTeXt (with the usual mtxrun commands) I am not sure how to achieve this. There might be just half a dozen of these place names involved in a text of some 300 pages worth. The font, BTW is Arslan Wessam A.ttf My humble attempt: I did the following in my preamble: \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [sans] [aarslanwessama] [range=arabic] The rest of the [mainface] setups are obviously western fonts. But the fallbackfamily approach did nothing to help. I also tried: Khàbab {\switchtobodyfont[aarslanwessama](خبب)} is a Syrian town 50 km south of Damascus... but that did nothing either. Am quite out of my depth with this one so any help would be appreciated. Julian
Thanks for that tip, Arthur. I, too, considered that it might be the font that was giving me problems (among other things, mainly my lack of understanding of r2l!), so I swapped to Amiri and then used the setup below which I then called in whenever needed -- it seems to work. But I will take a look at DejaVu Sans. \definefont[ArabicFont][file:Amiri-Regular.ttf*arabic at 11pt] \startsetups arabic \setupalign[r2l] \ArabicFont \stopsetups Julian On 10/4/21 10:39 pm, Arthur Rosendahl wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 09:05:37AM +1000, jbf wrote:
The font, BTW is Arslan Wessam A.ttf
Do you need to use this font in particular? I do have problems with it too. Replacing it with e. g. DejaVu Sans gives good results.
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:47:05AM +1000, jbf wrote:
Thanks for that tip, Arthur. I, too, considered that it might be the font that was giving me problems (among other things, mainly my lack of understanding of r2l!), so I swapped to Amiri and then used the setup below which I then called in whenever needed -- it seems to work. But I will take a look at DejaVu Sans.
That shouldn’t be necessary, I only took that one because it’s mentioned on the wiki. Glad it works for you. Best, Arthur
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