Re: At a loss for Italian

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:17 PM 5/21/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Monday, May 20, 2002 "v.demart@libero.it" wrote:
>
>vdli> Enough experienced with latex I'm now having a go at context under
>vdli> linux.
>vdli> My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore,
>vdli> after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every
>vdli> option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to
>vdli> no avail:
>vdli> when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter",
>vdli> the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented
>vdli> vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under
>vdli> latex!).
>
>\mainlanguage[it]
>
>would turn on italian as the main language (and thus select both
>section texts and hyphenations patterns). This is more or less the
>equivalent of \usepackage[italian]{babel} for LaTeX. To ensure
>that ConTeXt knows about the Italian hyphenation patterns, have a
>look at cont-usr.tex in your texmf/tex/context/user directory and
>make sure that the line
>
>   \installlanguage [\s!it] [\c!status=\v!start] % italian

maybe we should include more patterns by default, i have no idea what the 
costs are in terms of mem

Hans
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