[XeTeX] Script specific digits
Musa Furber
musaf at runbox.com
Sun Apr 17 07:53:01 CEST 2005
Dear XeTeX list,
The glyphs for the Arabic digits used in Latin languages occupy the
range between 0x0030 and 0x0039.
The glyphs for the Hindi digits used in Arabic occupy the ranges
between 0x0660 and 0x0669. Additionally, the are additional Indic
digits between 0x06f0 and 0x06f9.
Not all fonts have a full set of glyphs for the various types of
digits. Al Bayan, for example, doesn't have the glyphs for 0x0030
through 0x0039.
Does anyone know an appropriate way to map one range of digits to
another, e.g., have 0x0030 through 0x0039 map to 0x0660 through 0x0669,
or the reverse?
I started adapting Boris Lavva's Hebrew package for Babel to work for
Arabic under XeLaTeX. It turns out his package was easier to adapt to
XeLaTeX than ArabTeX.
This numbers thing has me stumped.
Regards,
Musa
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