From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9981 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie) Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:54:15 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021202224950.00aeac60@remote-1> References: <20021130201545.GA31855@mail.inet.hr> <20021129072039.GA7792@mail.inet.hr> <20021129191840.GB909@scaprea> <20021130201545.GA31855@mail.inet.hr> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038866369 14846 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 21:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Iyb9-0003rE-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:59:27 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B7310AE6; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:01:45 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from amsfep11-int.chello.nl (amsfep11-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.20]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342BF10ABF for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:00:14 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl ([62.194.246.85]) by amsfep11-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20021202220013.MXSG9762.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl> for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:00:13 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@remote-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20021202194652.GB651@scaprea> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9981 At 08:46 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > Some time ago I saw a post on DocBook list from Sebastian Rahtz who is > > considering to rewrite PassiveTex with ConTeXt support instead of LaTeX. > >That would be very good; much better than just doing >docbook. Sometimes I think I would better spend my time on such an >effort, but I am afraid it is a huge task. since i know a bit about the context internals ... actually, the best way to handle it is to build on top of low level counterparts; will look into that later [the only use i see for fo's in our workflows is as sub docs; kind of image like approach; so i'll writ eit anyway] > > The question remains, how to do it with multi-lingual document > > encoded in utf-8? > > > > Any hint? > >As is the case more often in open source: do it yourself. Hans has not >taken part in this discussion, so I think he does not feel like >embarking on an effort in this area. hm, utf is on my agenda, but for chars that i don't use myself i depend on others -) >The basic mechanism to make TeX work with encodings is to declare all >characters above 127 active, and map them to a suitable control >sequence. But that only works with single-byte encodings. the machinery is already there for quite some time; it's the way chinese/korean is implemented; and for western languages the mechanism is even simpler. >While I am writing this, I am beginning to think that copying xmltex's >algorithm to context is the best way to go. not sure about that; as said, context has the machinery already; i only need tables to work with (+the conversion stuff taco mailed earlier) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------