Re: korean

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Dohyun Kim <nomosnomos@gmail.com> wrote:

>> You get better results with "features=default" in the typescript because
>> the spaces remain now in the input but ConTeXt makes a line break now
>> only at the spaces.
>
> Yes! Much better with default features. Only missing is
> allowing line break between characters.

This is already on my list what is missing in ConTeXt's CJK support
but I think it makes sense to collect first what is needed and what
features we want.

> On the other hand, as script tag "hang" denotes "Hangul"
> according to opentype specification, it would be confusing
> to use this name for Chinese typesetting.  See:
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm

The chinese script use "hani" and "hang" is for the moment only
a synonym. In the end each language use their correct script tag.

You can the list also in font-ott.lua.

>> I would be better you can provide us better examples, copy and past
>> from other texts is not the best solution.
>
> The example provided by Wolfgang and corrected by me seems to be
> sufficient for simple testing.  It contains Hangul, Chinese characters,
> parentheses, commas, and Latin fullstops.
> Only Latin words are missing; so how about this?
>
>    나라의 말이 중국과 달라서 한자(chinese characters)로는
>
> Following link is the result compiled with latex under [a5paper] option:
> http://people.ktug.or.kr/~nomos/mine/koreantypesettingwithlatex.png

Looks good, we can use it to test ConTeXt's output after the code is finished.

Wolfgang
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