From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Asian Language Support
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 00:07:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA847A4.5080809@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA7CA3C.1030704@googlemail.com>
On 7-5-2012 15:12, S Barmeier wrote:
> I am writing documents in English/Japanese.
>
> If you want to include English text, you probably need to define your
> own typescript (or use simplefonts), because most Japanese fonts have
> terrible Latin fonts...
>
> I can probably help you, if you tell me what exactly you need.
>
> If you're just typesetting Japanese text, you will need
> \setscript[hanzi] to enable linebreaks...
>
> And the rest is done by Unicode magic: just type away between \starttext
> and \stoptext
I uploaded a beta with preliminary Japanese script support.
\enabletrackers[scripts.analyzing]
% \enabletrackers[scripts.injections]
\enabletrackers[scripts.details]
% \definefont[testfont][heiseikakugostd-w5][script=kana,language=jan]
\definefont[testfont][heiseiminstd-w3] [script=kana,language=jan]
\testfont
\starttext
\startscript[nihongo]
\startlines
国、『国』、『国』、『国』、『国』、『国』、
\hbox to 3em{国、『国』、『国』、『国』、『国』、『国』、}
国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国
\hbox to 3em{国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国：国}
\stoplines
\stopscript
\stoptext
A question for Yusuke: what script name should we use?
More (simple) examples are needed in order to get all relations between
categories done (so, currently we still use a copy of chinese but with
already a few japanese specific inter-character issues done).
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 10:43 hwitloc
2012-05-07 13:12 ` S Barmeier
2012-05-07 22:07 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-05-07 22:33 ` KUROKI Yusuke
2012-05-08 15:03 ` KUROKI Yusuke
2012-05-08 15:41 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-07 13:17 ` KUROKI Yusuke
2012-05-07 12:54 ` [***SPAM***] " d.henman
2012-05-07 14:17 ` KUROKI Yusuke
2012-05-08 8:41 ` ABE Noriyuki
2012-05-08 14:11 ` hwitloc
2012-05-08 9:09 ` [***SPAM***] " Hans Hagen
2012-05-07 13:56 ` S Barmeier
2012-05-07 15:54 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-08 10:39 ` KUROKI Yusuke
2012-05-09 13:37 ` KUROKI Yusuke
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2012-05-08 13:48 ` dalyoung
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