RE: Writing Japanese using ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:37 16/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > you mix up two mechanisms:
>
>Yes, after studying the Chinese module for a while, I also came to the
>conclusion that I mixed up bad! :-)
>
>So instead of enjoying the nice weather during the weekend, I wrote some
>mapping files that will create subfonts for EUC-JP encoding. Each subfont
>contains glyphs with the same first byte, just like the idea behind the
>Chinese module.
>
>Then I wrote a basic 'font-jpn.tex' file and now I can write Japanese in
>EUC-JP encoding, including basic line breaking!
>
>I was still working on this and wanted to release it when it was more
>useful, but I guess I have to speed things up now. Also, since I'm not an
>expert in ConText, I'm sure I'm doing some things completely the wrong way,
>so I think it's good if someone else will take a look at it. There is a lot
>to improve! :-)

wang lei (chinese) and chof (korean) are experts in that area

Hans
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