Re: French...

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:45 PM 2/1/2002 +0100, David Chemouil wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>before Xmas, some of you told that configuration files were being
>developed, so as to enable French guys to use Context. Which means
>getting the possibility to use EC fonts, and performing a few
>translations...

actually, ec fonts are supported, but we may need to map a few more chars 
(probably have to work out a better guillemot fall-back)

>I would like to know if there are some news concerning this. I must say
>that I do not use Context for this very reason, which bothers me quite a
>lot, as it seems to be far more pleasant and 'clean' than Latex.

there are only a few things needed for french (actually we have been doing 
[educ] french for years):

-  probably a il-1 encoding vector (base is there)
-  checking labels (is probably already done)
-  implementing a few typical frehcn things, like spacing around : ; etc

that's really all needed, so just gimme the specs

[maybe we need to start organizing 'language dev groups' or coordinators]

Hans

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