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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:22:03PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:

> (1) To what language group does malay belong? This determines the lang-* 
> file that needs to be extended

"malay" use the normal a,b,c,d,....,z. there is no special char/shape exist.

> (2) What is the language code of malay?

malay is used in Malaysia and Indonesia. from
http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/, I have;

Malay 	   [may] 

>>From http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html, I have

language       code    language family
--------       ----    ---------------
MALAY	       MS      OCEANIC/INDONESIAN

> (3) How are the hyphenation patters named?

in babel, it is /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/inhyph.tex. small, just
3.2k file.

> (4) What labels are to be defined?

using the standard english->malay dictionary, (use names from babel's
bahasa.ldf and lang-ger.tex). Some of it probably irrelevant.;

preface -> pendahuluan
reference -> rujukan
abstract -> abstrak
bibliography -> bibliografi
chapter -> bab
appendix -> lampiran
contents -> kandungan
list of figures -> senarai rajah
list of tables -> senarai jadual
abbreviation -> penyingkatan
graphics -> grafik
unit -> unit 
line -> baris
paragraph -> perenggan
index -> indeks
figure -> rajah
table -> jadual
part -> bahagian
page -> halaman
see -> lihat
proof -> bukti

months;
       january -> januari
       february -> februari
       march -> mac
       april -> april
       may -> mei
       june -> jun
       july -> julai
       august -> ogos
       september -> september
       october -> oktober
       november -> november
       december -> disember 

days;
     sunday -> ahad
     monday -> isnin
     tuesday -> selasa
     wednesday -> rabu
     thursday -> khamis
     friday -> jumaat
     saturday -> sabtu

many many thanks in advance.

alias/zamri

> If I have answers to this, I can add malay support rather fast, generating 
> a format is then done by:
> 
>    texexec --lang=ml,en  en
> 
> (for an english format with ml patterns)
> 
> Hans
> 
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