From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17194 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: h h extern Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: does context support vietnamese? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:24:30 +0100 Message-ID: <41A123AE.7000004@wxs.nl> References: <20041118013604.GA695@monty> <20041118014517.3394@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <20041119060929.GA30446@monty> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101111657 27331 80.91.229.6 (22 Nov 2004 08:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adam Lindsay Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 22 09:20:52 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 1CW9RM-0001RX-00 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3DF127A4; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:50 +0100 (CET) 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 16163-04-10; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF00A12798; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F72912798 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:46 +0100 (CET) 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 16163-04-9 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B085612793 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAM8KSTP024988; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:28 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id AFE3317D1A; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D4817C73; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:20:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: The Thanh Han , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20041119060929.GA30446@monty> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 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: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17194 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17194 The Thanh Han wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote: > >>The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: >> >> >>>Hi Adam, >>> >>>ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was >>>renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's >>>heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. >> >>Thanks. The questions now seem to be, is there a significant amount of >>fonts/support files/work that relied on x5 that needs to be supported? >>Because I just discovered that there were some serious bugs in the >>ConTeXt interpretation of the x5 encoding, and that any regular user >>would have demanded that something be changed! > > > afaik nobody has used vietnamese with context yet, so just forget > backward compability and do what is needed. so we can drop x5 and go for t5 (i.e. lm only needs to support t5) thanh: adam got most font stuff working like a charm! i'll add things to the distribution 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------