From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17249 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: The Thanh Han Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: does context support vietnamese? Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:19:36 +0700 Message-ID: <20041124061936.GB1358@monty> References: <20041118013604.GA695@monty> <20041118014517.3394@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <20041119060929.GA30446@monty> <41A123AE.7000004@wxs.nl> Reply-To: The Thanh Han , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101287412 9412 80.91.229.6 (24 Nov 2004 09:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Adam Lindsay Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 24 10:09:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWt9z-0000cD-00 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C829012798; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:09:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04049-01; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:09:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739BB12778; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:08:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED7712778 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:08:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03835-04 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:08:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (unknown [213.165.64.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 902821276F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:08:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 28448 invoked by uid 65534); 24 Nov 2004 09:08:09 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (EHLO monty) (203.210.222.183) by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 24 Nov 2004 10:08:09 +0100 X-Authenticated: #13779288 Original-Received: from thanh by monty with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWqVG-0000NH-00; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:19:46 +0700 Original-To: h h extern Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A123AE.7000004@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17249 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17249 On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:24:30AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > The Thanh Han wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote: > > > >>The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: > >> > >> > >>>Hi Adam, > >>> > >>>ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was > >>>renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's > >>>heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. > >> > >>Thanks. The questions now seem to be, is there a significant amount of > >>fonts/support files/work that relied on x5 that needs to be supported? > >>Because I just discovered that there were some serious bugs in the > >>ConTeXt interpretation of the x5 encoding, and that any regular user > >>would have demanded that something be changed! > > > > > >afaik nobody has used vietnamese with context yet, so just forget > >backward compability and do what is needed. > > so we can drop x5 and go for t5 (i.e. lm only needs to support t5) > > thanh: adam got most font stuff working like a charm! i'll add things to > the distribution wonderful. When Quy translates the latex2context howto to Vietnamese, I will give another try to switch to context :) Thanh