Czech support (Was: Re: does context support vietnamese?)^[

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

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> The Thanh Han wrote:
> >What is the current status of context support for czech?

Hello,

Hyphenation patterns work OK for Czech. Settings for Czech seem to be
reasonable (I'd only redefine subsentence setting and mainly date),
generated words (Chapter, ...) work fine, at least it is easy to
redefine them to one's personal taste :-)

System messages and names of macros are available in Czech (although I
cannot imagine anyone who would use them; things like "nastavramovani"
for setupframed seem really perverted to me:-).

Index sorting is missing in the distribution; in any case, Czech sorting
rules are really ugly and need incorporation of Cz::Sort into texutil. I
don't keep an eye on ConTeXt development very carefully so I might be
out-of-sync, nevertheless it'd be nice to have a sorting module
pluggable into texutil (just a suggestion).

The Czech support is based on master thesis of Tomas Hudec. After
finishing his study, he disappeared and I have no knowledge about him.
Fortunately, I have the complete sources of his work, so the missing
parts could be filled. I've prepared a Bc. thesis assignment saying in
fact "take Tomas' thesis and make it really work" but I haven't manage
anybody to do that :-(

Currently, I'm pretty busy (and use ConTeXt to write in English), so if
a Czech speaking ConTeXt user wants to have a look at it, I can send
him/her the archive.

Regards,
D.A.

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