From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4333 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Speech / sentences [repost] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:38:44 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010312213844.00b48970@server-1> References: <000201c09b8a$46cff5c0$a3ccfea9@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395012 24946 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXt" Original-To: "Giuseppe Bilotta" In-Reply-To: <000201c09b8a$46cff5c0$a3ccfea9@nuovo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4333 At 05:17 PM 2/20/01 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >Hello, >while studying supp-lan I discovered I made an awfull error, >a wrong assumption, about the meaning of sentence and subsentence; >I *thought* that it referred to speech ---what characters say >in a novel---, while it referred to (guess!) >subsentences ---like this one----, and thus made wrong definitions >about Italian. This also refers to what I had written quite some >time ago, about the need to replicate the "start-of-speech" at >each new paragraph. So: > >1) I will revert leftsentence & company to the correct ones >for Italian; >2) what are the commands to set the per-language spacing >after the left(sub)sentence and before the right(sub)sentence >mark? Is it possible to make this spacing non-breakable? >2) I need support for leftspeech, rightspeech, leftsubspeech, >righsubspeech and appropriate typesetting options (like >automatically repeating leftspeech at each new paragraph >in Italian) in the kernel (since it looks that all the >|| special chars are taken, speech could maybe be signaled >by |<<| and |>>| ... ). What about it? We can pick up this tread when the encoding works well, since then we can map 'm onto nice names. Remind me to do that Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------