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At 12:03 PM 7/8/01 +0200, David Antos wrote:
>>
>>so you want an english context but with czech defaults?
>
>I'd prefer Czech ConTeXt with English interface only :-)
>
>>
>>  texexec --make --alone --language=en,cz --bodyfont=csr en
>>
>>will do that for you: czech as main language, with czech fonts.
>
>Oops, I've tried it before but the fonts get broken (characters with
>accents are not displayed in dvi). Maybe I misunderstand the ideas of
>multilanguage interface and texexec switches, I think --interface says,
>what language the ConTeXt commands are and the language of the messages,
>--language says what hyphenating patterns to use (it's the same as
>\mainlanguage[xx], isn't it).

right, and for czech, things have been extended recently [this what petr
and i were doing when we were sitting next to you: checking the two most
widely used encodings] so, currently context can work with the two
encodings used in czech patterne at the same time].  

>The format determines the set of hyphenation patterns (they are
>hardcoded in it), sets the default language, default font and may
>install additional languages. The generated words (Chapter, Contents and
>so on) should be also set to the default language of the format.

right, but defauktlanguage is called \mainlanguage in context 

>How does interface depend on format? I think I should use `format of the
>language of the document' being able to switch to any interface
>installed in the format. (In fact, I'm sure that most Czech users use
>English interfaces, why shouldn't they use texexec --format=cont-cz
>--interface=en? Or without setting the interface if someone likes Czech
>commands?)

beware 

  texexec cz 

is enough, the format switch is for plain and mptopdf and alike

>Where am I wrong? How the things really are? BTW, if I change
>cont-usr.tex and regenerate formats, does it change all the formats? Is
>cont-usr.tex loaded by the \loaduserspecifications command in
>cont-{en,cz,...}?

cont usr is always loaded, unless you use 

  --language  / --bodyfont 

so, 

  texexec --language={cz,sk,en,de,sp} --bodyfont=csr en 

should give you an english interface with czech as main language and the
czech tuned cmr fonts. 

>Sorry for bothering too much and thanks for answer

no problem, the texexec manual should be better -) 

Hans
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