Re: At a loss for Italian

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Monday, May 20, 2002 "v.demart@libero.it" wrote:

vdli> Enough experienced with latex I'm now having a go at context under 
vdli> linux. 
vdli> My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore, 
vdli> after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every 
vdli> option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to 
vdli> no avail: 
vdli> when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter", 
vdli> the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented 
vdli> vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under 
vdli> latex!).

\mainlanguage[it]

would turn on italian as the main language (and thus select both
section texts and hyphenations patterns). This is more or less the
equivalent of \usepackage[italian]{babel} for LaTeX. To ensure
that ConTeXt knows about the Italian hyphenation patterns, have a
look at cont-usr.tex in your texmf/tex/context/user directory and
make sure that the line

  \installlanguage [\s!it] [\c!status=\v!start] % italian

is uncommented. If it's not, change the file and recreate the
cont-en format (assuming that's what you're using). You should not
need any other change.

To enable automatic recognition of the accented letters, you need
to use

\enableregime[il1]

(assuming that your text editor saves the extended characters in
ISO-Latin-1 format). This is more or less the equivalent of
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} for LaTeX.

(BTW, there is a cont-it format (texexec --make it) with
pre-selected italian hyphenation patterns and where italian is
the main language; this format also has most ConTeXt commands
translated to italian, so that for example you use \iniziatesto
... \terminatesto instead of \starttext ... \stoptext --you may
want to give it a try.)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta