Re: Preprocessing ConTeXt file to convert from UTF-8 to ASCII & ABNT

["João Macaíba" <joao.macaiba@gmail.com>]

Hi, Wolfgang.

On Jan 25, 2009, at 04:08, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 25.01.2009 um 19:05 schrieb João Macaíba:
>
>> I've used LaTeX for a while and found articles about ConTeXt  
>> yesterday and decided give it a try since its different approach.
>>
>> Reading the docs I've found it only works with ASCII.
>
> The authors of the manual meant ConTeXt use plain text files
> as input, the encoding of the files is not limited to ASCII
> chars, you could use UTF-8 without problems.

You're right. I misunderstood that.

>
>> If there are other people writing in portuguese, like me, and  
>> specially brazilians, is there a way to implement ABNT standard ?
>
> What is ABNT?
>

ABNT == Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas == Brazilian  
Association for Technical Standards

ABNT has a standard layout for technical writings.


>> I use 'vim' and 'textmate' as my primary editors for *TeX*, and my  
>> platform is MacOSX (Leopard).
>
> For file encoding take a look at this page:
>
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes
>
>
> To tell ConTeXt your document is encoded in UTF-8, write
>
> \enableregime[utf]
> % more settings
> \starttext
> your text
> \stoptext
>
> in your document.
>
>
> The ConTeXt wiki has also page for VIM and TextMate:
>
> - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Vim
> - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TextMate
>

Great !  :)

>
> Wolfgang
>

Thanks for the help and time, Wolfgang !

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Regards.
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João Macaíba <joao.macaiba@gmail.com>



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