Re: "Very dirty" localisation request for a rainy evening

[Brooks Moses <bmoses@stanford.edu>]

At 02:01 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>Hello Hans, Today I saw a webpage of someone, who is very active in the 
>field of translation and localisation of free software into Slovenian. It 
>astonished me the way he numered the items on his webpage: (a) 
>approximation ... (b) Gauss ... (c) numerical solutions ... (è) solving 
>parabolic ... % [\ccaron] (d) ... This should actually be the only proper 
>way to number items in Slovenian, but you can imagine that nobody is able 
>to use that since the beginning of computer era. (Another example is the 
>usage of quotation marks: most people use the American quotation marks 
>instead of the German ones just because MS Word defaults to that.) 
>However, those people who really care, use the Slovenian alphabet when 
>enumerating (manually, of course). I'm proud, for example, that I was in 
>the class "1.È" in the high school. Not right away, but any time in the 
>future when unicode, fonts and similar will be updated/reimplemented/fully 
>supported and when it will be raining cats and dogs and nothing 
>interesting will be on TV: can you think on this this tiny request to 
>switch to local enumeration if \mainlanguage[sl] (or any other language 
>with a similar request) is selected?

I decided that this would be a good excuse to learn a little more about how 
ConTeXt handles enumerations.  It turns out (as Hans just mentioned while I 
was writing this!) that there is already the functionality to define 
language-specific enumerations, so no need to wait for that.

So, anyhow, I wrote up a short third-party module to handle Slovenian 
character enumeration (can I presume that the rest of the alphabet ordering 
is the same as English?), along with a test file.  You can get them here 
for now:

   http://dpdx.net/context/slovenian/

Hans (or anyone else who knows more than I do), is there a better place to 
put this?

- Brooks