
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
as taco mentioned ... most open type fonts have no italic correction automatically figuring it out is not always an option, compare (in pdftex): \sl \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \bs \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \it \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A i can imagine that we start building a database with additional font parameters Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:32:50 -0700, Hans Hagen
I spent a few hours on a workaround. Attached is my temporary code for Arabic transliteration. I found a way to define U-02BE and U-02BF for Latin Modern (thanks to Wolfgang and Peter for helping me with \ifx). It does work well but feel free to suggest improvements! (A bug: \defineactivecharacter ḻ {\~l} does not work if \showboxes is invoked; weird) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
use \normalhbox cum suis when you want to use showboxes (which overloads the primitive box operations) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:47:26 -0700, Hans Hagen
Hmm, it's more serious than that I'm afraid (utf-8 text follows): =========== % engine=luatex \starttext \defineactivecharacter Ṣ {\d S} \defineactivecharacter ḻ {\~l} \defineactivecharacter ḻ {\normalhbox{\~l}} Ṣādiq a\~l Aḻ\footnote{Ṣādiq a\~l Aḻ} \stoptext =========== The \~l does not work in the footnote in luatex. Is there a workaround? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
can you send a zipped file ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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