Re: another question on regimes and encoding

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:11 AM 12/28/00 +0100, Denis B. Roegel wrote:
>That's a late reply to your message of December 12.
>
>`Hans Hagen' wrote
>>   
>...
>>   imagine the steps for cmr: 
>>   
>>     composed(e,") -> regime[latin1] -> \"e -> composed tex char  
>>     \"e                                    -> composed tex char
>>   
>>   and for ecmr
>>   
>>     composed(e,") -> encoding as triggered by font -> composed(e,")
>>     \"e           -> idem                          -> composed(e,")
>
>One more question: if I wanted ``ë'' to be mapped on ``é'' in ecrm1000,
>I would presumably
>
>\enableencoding[ec]      since I am using ecrm1000
>
>\enableregime[mystrangeregime]
>
>  (where enco-mystrangeregime.tex would contain
>
>        \defineactivecharacter ë {\'e}
>  )
>
>Is that right?

Right. Like enco-win, enco-ibm and enco-lat. 

But, if you can wait for a few more days, it's there for you. I'm currently
redefining some encoding vectors so that we can more easilly remap to
unicode which is needed for pdf resources [especially for our central
european friends].

The endings will now look like: 

\startencoding [ec]

\definecharacter eacute 234

\stopencoding 

and in this case \startencoding [ec][ec] will also produce the regime codes.

It means that inside context \eacute will more around as fully expandable
something. This is not that different from the current approach but more
readable. All chars will be accessible that way, independ of their encoding. 

So, in your case: 

<active char 234> regimes onto <\somechar> encodes onto [\char234
uchar{1}{123} ...] etc, depending on the setting. 

I still have to sort out a few guillemot things and so.

There will also be tracing features and one can generate tables that show
if a char is a composed one [accent/pseudo accent] or a direct one. 

It will be a group effort to get the vectors complete since i don't know
all chars [so i may have missed a few] and i want fall backs for all cases. 

Hans

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