From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16302 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: alpha version low level english Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:49:59 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <413449C7.1000801@wxs.nl> References: <20040830183235.17187@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093945816 1353 80.91.224.253 (31 Aug 2004 09:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 31 11:50:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C25HE-0006Zi-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FD51277E; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30056-04; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF15312772; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3994612772 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29899-09 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FDE12771 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7V9o0kr016304 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 62EA01B50E; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C401B33D for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:50:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20040830183235.17187@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on mailrelay01.solcon.nl X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16302 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16302 Adam Lindsay wrote: >>>>I uploaded the upcoming release, >>>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/alpha This version is low level >>>>english (commands, keywords, values). It is >>>> >>>> > >Very cool. I can't imagine how huge a job this was. > >While looking through mult-com and -con, I noticed a few capitalised >words that didn't get translated: > >mult-con: Cijfers, Letters, Letter, MAAND, Romeins, Grieks, WEEKDAG, WOORD. >mult-com: steloffsetin > > ok, corrected (keywords with capitals were left untouched, since they may be user ones) >With every change you make, there's almost always a complaint. :) Here's mine: >In English (American & British), "criterium" is more correctly >"criterion". Similarly, "palet" is "palette". I have notes on other >little complaints, but these are the big ones. > > well, you can always define a 'purified' interface (script an extra entry in mult-co[nm] with defaults taken fron english) >As you have to worry about backward compatibility, I know there's not a >lot you can do to make me happy, but my inner pedant just wanted to get >that off his chest. :) > > no problem, as soon as >50% is crap english we can cook up a new version btw, internally we speak of context-2 for this ll english one, after that comes context-4 [we skip the 3, guess why] and after that context-8 and context-16 for other fundamental changes, so there are enough oppurtunities left for improvement Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------