Re: At a loss for Italian

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:13 PM 5/20/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:08:48PM +0200, v.demart@libero.it wrote:
> > My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore,
> > after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every
> > option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to
> > no avail:
> > when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter",
> > the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented
> > vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under
> > latex!).
>
>Have you said \mainlaguage[it] at the beginning of the document? It
>should switch the language of generated texts and hyphenation, too.
>I suppose Italian have some kind of modified cm fonts, so say also
>\setupbodyfont[your_national_font].
>
>If the hyphenation is still wrong, it means that in your format file
>there are no hyphenation patterns for Italian. The easiest way to do it
>is probably to change cont-usr.tex (say 'kpsewhich cont-usr.tex' to find
>out where it is) and uncomment there the line \installlanguage [s!\it]
>[c!status=\v!start] and re-generate the formats (with fmtutil and/or
>texexec --make). This inserts Italian hyphenation patterns into all
>formats you create.

in addition to this there is:

   texexec --make --lang=en,it

here a temp usr file is created with the "it" patterns enabled and 
afterwards "en" is made the main language

Hans

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