From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1243 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karsten Tinnefeld Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Expand cont-ger.tex Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:31:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <199911151431.PAA12459@goedel.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392075 31091 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1243 > >\startlanguagespecifics[nl] > > \installcompoundcharacter "a {\"a} > > \installcompoundcharacter "e {\"e} > > \installcompoundcharacter "o {\"o} > >\stoplanguagespecifics > German users are very accustomed to this " convention which is > why it is default there. If I would make it default for dutch, it could > break existing documents with normal "'s. Although, as long as one never > uses " '' `` but \quote and \quotation instead, making " active is pretty > safe. What I really learned to love about german.sty/germanb.lfd are the tie setting rules - so far that I use to apply them in my English texts as well. (I'm not so much into "u's as I rely on \benutzekodierung[win]/ \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}.) "= seems to be the same as || in \CONTEXT, as Eui||feest in the introduction suggests. These shorthands seem to be the only ones from german/babel not implemented in cont-ger - why? "- allow hyphenation here, but do not disallow elsewhere, as \" does, used in OT1 encoded text containing e.g. umlauts "" insert \discretionary{}{}{} (empty breakpoint) here, used after solidi (/) "| prevent ligatures, , allow break, insert \/;used e.g. when 1st syllable ends "f" and second starts "l" "~ fixed dash, no breaks allowed (tying short abbreviation to word or leaving out first (repeated) part of a word "= (like || ?) add \discretionary{-}{}{-}, allow break -- Karsten Tinnefeld tinnefeld@ls2.cs.uni-dortmund.de Fachbereich Informatik, Lehrstuhl 2 T +49 231 755-4737 Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Deutschland F +49 231 755-2047