Re: At a loss for Italian

[David Antos <xantos@informatics.muni.cz>]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:08:48PM +0200, v.demart@libero.it wrote:
> My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore, 
> after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every 
> option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to 
> no avail: 
> when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter", 
> the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented 
> vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under 
> latex!).

Have you said \mainlaguage[it] at the beginning of the document? It
should switch the language of generated texts and hyphenation, too.
I suppose Italian have some kind of modified cm fonts, so say also
\setupbodyfont[your_national_font].

If the hyphenation is still wrong, it means that in your format file
there are no hyphenation patterns for Italian. The easiest way to do it
is probably to change cont-usr.tex (say 'kpsewhich cont-usr.tex' to find
out where it is) and uncomment there the line \installlanguage [s!\it]
[c!status=\v!start] and re-generate the formats (with fmtutil and/or
texexec --make). This inserts Italian hyphenation patterns into all
formats you create.

D.A.