From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6789 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: French... Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:35:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020203193211.02df00a0@server-1> References: <1012581956.5014.10.camel@sable.irit.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397299 13775 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:21:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt NTG list Original-To: David Chemouil In-Reply-To: <1012581956.5014.10.camel@sable.irit.fr> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6789 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6789 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------