interfaces

interfaces

[Hans Hagen]

Because the number of nationalities on this list is increasing I would
like to point out some language dependant issues. 

local interfaces: 

Currently there are three interfaces: en, de and nl. Earlier this week I
met Tom Hudec who will do the czech interface (cz). 

main interface: 

Currently the low level interface is dutch, but that one will be english
later this year. This only affects those who write generic styles.
(conversion can be done by a perl script that is currently under
testing).

typeseting language: 

One can take a look at the lang-* files to see what languages are
supported. Languages are grouped into their parent (origin) language.
Please report any errors in these files (labels and so). 

It is possible to implement language specifics. Currently only german
has language specifics attached ("e->\"e and alike). 

Additional patterns can be loaded in the file cont-usr.tex (format
generation). if needed, the default language and local initializations
can be set in cont-sys.tex.

Please inform me of encoding/font/other problems with languages. 

Hans 

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interfaces

[Hans Hagen]

Currently the following interfaces are supported: 

language    translator             messages  interface

dutch       Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
english     Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
german      Tobias Burnus          yes       yes 
czech       Tom Hudec              yes       yes 
italian     Giuseppe Bilotta       yes       yes 
norwegian   Hans Fredrik Nordhaug  yes       no  

Texexec now supports mixed interfaces: 

  texexec --make --response=no --language=en,no en 

will generate an english interface, with norwegian patterns, but english as
default, since it's mentioned first, with norwegian messages. 

The weird combination 

  texexec --make --response=it --language=pl --bodyf=plr de 

will give you an german interface with italian messages and polish as
default language and polish fonts. Please report any irrularities and/or
feel free to provide other (message) lib's.  

In a similar way there will be command reference documents with any
combination of interface and documentation.   

Hans

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Re: interfaces

[Denis B. Roegel]

`Hans Hagen' wrote
>   
>   Currently the following interfaces are supported: 
>   
>   language    translator             messages  interface
>   
>   dutch       Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>   english     Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>   german      Tobias Burnus          yes       yes 
>   czech       Tom Hudec              yes       yes 
>   italian     Giuseppe Bilotta       yes       yes 
>   norwegian   Hans Fredrik Nordhaug  yes       no  

I'd be happy to provide a French interface if you tell me
how to do it.

Denis

Re: interfaces

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:45 PM 10/3/00 +0200, you wrote:
>`Hans Hagen' wrote
>>   
>>   Currently the following interfaces are supported: 
>>   
>>   language    translator             messages  interface
>>   
>>   dutch       Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>>   english     Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>>   german      Tobias Burnus          yes       yes 
>>   czech       Tom Hudec              yes       yes 
>>   italian     Giuseppe Bilotta       yes       yes 
>>   norwegian   Hans Fredrik Nordhaug  yes       no  
>
>I'd be happy to provide a French interface if you tell me
>how to do it.

To start with messages: search for \startmessages in the source files and
provide french sections. That part of the code is self explaning. If you
are willing to provide the french part of the quick ref documentation, you
may like to join the documenation thread (takes place at sourceforge). It's
a good way to learn all functionality.  

Hans 
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Re: interfaces

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:24 AM 10/3/00 -0400, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug wrote:

>> >>   Currently the following interfaces are supported: 
>> >>   
>> >>   language    translator             messages  interface
>> >>   
>> >>   dutch       Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>> >>   english     Hans Hagen             yes       yes 
>> >>   german      Tobias Burnus          yes       yes 
>> >>   czech       Tom Hudec              yes       yes 
>> >>   italian     Giuseppe Bilotta       yes       yes 
>> >>   norwegian   Hans Fredrik Nordhaug  yes       no  
>> >
>> >I'd be happy to provide a French interface if you tell me
>> >how to do it.
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>
>Just one remark: I think there is quite a bit confusion about messages/
>interfaces. The table above should have clearified it, but maybe you
>should do it explicitly - just to have one e-mail covering this
>subject in the archive :-)

Well, messages are the things that are reported to the log and terminal,
while interface things are keys, values, and commands. So, from this table
one can read that norwegian messages are supported but only in combination
with en/de/nl/cz/it interfaces. 

Hans 
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