From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11498 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Sneep Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 8r vs. ec vs. texnansi Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:14:08 +0100 Organization: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <03031910140800.04516@mondriaan> References: <20030220163139.GA25234@idi.ntnu.no> <20030318184827.1399fd6e.morawski@gmx.net> <87wuiwti3w.fsf_-_@gundla.ch> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048065428 4291 80.91.224.249 (19 Mar 2003 09:17:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Mar 19 10:17:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vZh4-00016w-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:17:06 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1981010B5B; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:17:07 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from nat.vu.nl (hardy.nat.vu.nl [130.37.32.3]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0493B10B58 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:14:31 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mondriaan (dyn34-207 [130.37.34.207]) by nat.vu.nl (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id h2J9EW706095 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:14:32 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] In-Reply-To: <87wuiwti3w.fsf_-_@gundla.ch> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11498 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11498 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 23:39, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > \setupencoding[default=8r] > > > > what is the advantage of using 8r instead of ec or texnansi? > > It is a matter of taste and the characters you need. There is no big > difference for my german and english texts. (snip) > Sometimes I need glyphs that are encoded in 8r but not in ec (euro sign > for example). I never use glyphs that are encoded in ec but not in > 8r. But the disadvantage of 8r is that in most languages the line-breaking algorithm performs badly. Take the dutch "verifi\"{e}ren". If the hyphenation patterns are set up correctly, it should break like "ve-ri-fi-e-ren" (hope I got this right ;-), and you should loose the accent. you can verify this by using \showhyphens{verifi\"{e}ren} in tex. In the log, the possible word breaks will be shown. In the default 8r it doesn't break correcly, near the accent. In ec it does break well. I don't know about texnansi. I'm sure others can give better examples, and explain why the wordbreaking doesn't work correctly. Kind regards, Maarten Sneep