Re: mkiv

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex
>> part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using
>> language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for
>> mkiv? After all we can have more advanced exceptions and we have utf ...
> 
> enco-fsl can go away (in mkii as well), but not lang-sla.mki* :)
> 
> When looking into enco-fde (the same is true for Slovenian and Croatian):
> 
>   \def\setupDElanguage
>     {\setuplanguage
>        [\s!de]
>        [\c!leftsentence=\leftguillemot,
>         \c!rightsentence=\rightguillemot,
>         \c!leftsubsentence=\leftsubguillemot,
>         \c!rightsubsentence=\rightsubguillemot]}
> 
> I have suggested another way of handling that a few days ago (no
> conclusions met).

i lost track of this setup thing ...

> Discretionaries should be handled by LuaTeX itself, right? So I guess
> that they're not really needed if they find their way into mkiv.

indeed, much more possibilities there ... just provide me rules and 
files and ...

> Then only "a, "o, "u, "s are left for German. (I already wanted to ask
> for "c -> č, "s -> š and "z ->ž mappings for Slovenian once, but I
> have changed my mind. I find it extremely ugly, although I used to
> write that way before someone has told me about
> \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc}

i hear no germans climing that this should stay ... after all, it's a 
rather ancient way of dealing with things

> I would vote against supporting them ("a, "o, "u) in LuaTeX, but it's
> not up to me.

nobody voted in favor so far ...

Hans

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