From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12487 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Writing Japanese using ConTeXt Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:03:06 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030615225437.089e2500@localhost> References: <000001c32db3$f5e81750$0a01a8c0@TIMBO> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055712304 10873 80.91.224.249 (15 Jun 2003 21:25:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sun Jun 15 23:24:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Rezj-0002ou-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6106910B5A; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:27:41 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD3410B20 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:05:09 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.9/SQL-8.12.9-10/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h5FL505u018371 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:05:00 +0200 Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (server-1.pragma-net.nl [10.100.1.1] (may be forged)) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h5FL4k0o001047 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:05:06 +0200 X-Sender: hagen-mail@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <000001c32db3$f5e81750$0a01a8c0@TIMBO> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) 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:12487 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12487 At 13:48 08/06/2003 +0200, Tim 't Hart wrote: >Then I decided to try ConTeXt's UTF-8 support. I created the following test >file: ..... you mix up two mechanisms: (1) the one used for chinese is not utf but an installable multi glyph mechanism, where the first glyph triggers a font and the second a char (2) utf encodings directly map onto a font (needed to get hyphenation right) so what you need is either a didicated handler like chinese, or a plug in into the utf handler. >But since there are usually no spaces in a Japanese sentence, there is no >line breaking. And as you can imagine, line breaking is a useful feature to >have! :-) A few questions; - How are the rules for breaking? - how many glyphs are there (well, i could look it up in the big cjk book) - what ranges do we use? (see unic-* files for uft handling) Can you make a small test suite? 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------