From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: context.labeltext(...)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:22:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E12BBAC.2000705@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110704165314.GA6145@khaled-laptop>
On 4-7-2011 6:53, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:20:37PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Willi Egger<w.egger@boede.nl> wrote:
>>> Hi Luigi,
>>>
>>> hm, did not know this one. Still I can not see that this is going to
>>> fit in my situation. I refer to may other mail I sent a minute ago.
>>> - The thing is, that the document I am building should be
>>> multilingual and therefore I need at the lua-end the lowercase text
>>> which should be made first-letter-uppercase at the moment it is
>>> typeset.
>> In the first email you talked about a generic label. Uppercase /lower
>> case are unicode sensitive; as Wolfgang already wrote
>> string.lower(..) and string.upper(..) can help , but they depend on
>
> unicode.utf8.lower()/upper() are a better choice for non-ASCII text.
>
> (I still believe the default string manipulation functions should be
> Unicode aware by default, and the 8-bit ones should be an alternative,
> not the other way around).
you can just rename/remap them if needed; swapping stock lua and unicode
functions would render regular lua manuals/tutorials useless and also
make lua 8-bit dirty
(local lower = utf.lower at the top of a file is enough to get what you
want)
Hans
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 15:02 context.labeltext(...) Willi Egger
2011-07-04 15:41 ` context.labeltext(...) Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-04 16:00 ` context.labeltext(...) Willi Egger
2011-07-04 16:12 ` context.labeltext(...) Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-04 15:54 ` context.labeltext(...) luigi scarso
2011-07-04 16:05 ` context.labeltext(...) Willi Egger
2011-07-04 16:14 ` context.labeltext(...) Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-04 16:20 ` context.labeltext(...) luigi scarso
2011-07-04 16:53 ` context.labeltext(...) Khaled Hosny
2011-07-04 17:02 ` context.labeltext(...) Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-05 7:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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