From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2657 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Foreign Languages Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:04:30 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000912120430.018a89b0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <008f01c01c27$af942dc0$e4440e97@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393432 10712 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:17:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Giuseppe Bilotta (Oblomov)" In-Reply-To: <008f01c01c27$af942dc0$e4440e97@nuovo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2657 At 09:13 PM 9/11/00 +0200, you wrote: >The first one is support for multiple languages. That is, I'd like to know >if ConTeXt has anything similar to babel, and, if not, how can similar >results be achieved. It's all there. texexec --make --alone --language=en,it en should give you: 0 words of font info for 0 preloaded fonts 57 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 30696 has 798 ops out of 1501 265 for language 8 86 for language 6 235 for language 5 31 for language 3 181 for language 2 No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. additional patterns : en,it default language : en TeX binary : pdfetex format(s) : en So, after that, when you run the english interface, you should be able to switch to italian by saying \mainlanguage[it] You will find more about labels and so in lang-ita.tex. >The second one is support for bibliography: can BibTeX be used with ConTeXt? yes, using tacos (preliminary) bibtex module >The third one is about math. I do lots of mathematics, and I found AMS LaTeX >very powerfull for my needs. From what I got reading the manual, I can >surely have features like \newtheorem and alike in ConTeXt, with no problem >(and maybe even with more power on customization); but, I haven't found >anything about mathematics; can I use AMSTeX on ConTeXt? yes, using tacos (preliminary) math module >One last thing: I'd like to support/contribute to ConTeXt, helping in >developing an italian interface and possibly translating the ConTeXt manual >(when it will be complete). What can/should I do? You may want to take a look at (1) mult-com.tex (2) mult-con.tex where the translation tables are located and (3) grep on \startmessages Of course there should be some coordination in this effort but it's not even that much work. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------