From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20545 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Dense Encoding - Comments wanted Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:42:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20050528234246.16891@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117323647 24611 80.91.229.2 (28 May 2005 23:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 23:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 29 01:40:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcAut-0003r1-Ad for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C34127D7; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05209-09; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31158127BE; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC570127BE for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07230-01 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89402127BB for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 01:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.101] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4SNgiZj010121 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 00:42:45 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Mailing List For ConTeXt Users" X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.2 build 4388 English X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20545 Hi all, On Hans's suggestion, I've been working on a "dense" character encoding that does away with combining accents and extraneous symbol-like characters in favor of fully accented characters. This encoding is sort of based on the EC encoding, but adds (to the best of my knowledge) support for Romanian, Maltese, Welsh, Lithuanian, and Latvian. The punctuation that I kept was "typographic" in nature, that would fall within a normal text flow, especially those affected by ligatures and/or kerns. The typographic symbols were left out, including monetary symbols. I reckon these could be called as symbols from another encoding. The general intent here is to have strong support for (latin script) modern European languages, in the context of Unicode input. I concentrate on letters, in order to give as good kerning as possible with a 256 character subset. The letters are fully composed, to help hyphenation within TeX. Note that the encoding can't handle general transliteration or other "academic" uses. So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-