From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1275 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karsten Tinnefeld Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: language specifics Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:18:44 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <199911161818.TAA17364@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 1035392103 31329 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1275 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1275 > The main problem is in the weird ones. I have no problem with the "e > and alike ones, but using them for compound words and quotes is a bad > idea, since context has dedicated alternatives for those, which also > have options. To what extend do we need to satisfy habits and features > from for instance latex? It is a sensible argument that many of the abbreviations I've been discussing to you in the last few days may be kind of complicated crap, let alone of no use to a lot of languages. However, the functionality provided appears to me to be quite important - at least as long as we still build on 7- or 8-bit input code sets. The german package for that instance has evolved for the last twelve years, so that I expect the basics to having been settled. On the other hand, all but the very simplest ligatures are defined more or less arbitrarily, and explaining plain paragraph source to a wysiayg user is a nontrivial task. Thus, if context has even more powerful tools that can cope in all necessary cases, maybe this is the time to consider turning to a more reasonable source encoding. In this case, my questions are: a) Do we still have to account for 7-bit ascii? b) How do we encode the various ways of hyphening and dash-ing in a most non-ideosyncratic way? Karsten -- 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