From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: MKII font-chi.tex bug fix
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:12:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C42C56.90703@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900802230106k109a2a4ayafb389aea4ea38ba@mail.gmail.com>
Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi, there
>
> I am still using MKII to do Chinese typesetting.
> As I mentioned before, User should use this in their source files to
> produce correct spaces between the chinese characters and english
> words
> 中文English\ 中文
> instead of
> 中文 English 中文
> or
> 中文English中文
> which is quite annoying.
> In order to remove this constraint,
> here is what I have found out:
> Uncomment line 248 and line 267 of font-chi.tex will do.
the problem is that tex cannot look back or forward with respect to
glyphs; chinese chars are active in mkii but regular latin is not and
cannot be active, so ther ei sno robust solution possible
in mkiv we can try to deal with it (given clear rules)
Hans
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