Re: Writing Japanese using ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 16:22 15/06/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>For a detailed explanation, you should refer to the big book. But
>actually the rules are not all that difficult--probably a good deal
>simpler than European languages, I'd say. The most important thing to
>know is that there is a certain set of characters that may not occur at
>the end of a line, and another set that may not occur at the beginning,
>and I believe (it's been a while since I seriously looked at any of
>this) that there are certain unbreakable pairs, but not a huge number of
>them.

ok, so that's like chinese;

now, how about numbering [chinese have multiple systems] and labels 
[chinese has pre/post labels]?

> > - how many glyphs are there (well, i could look it up in the big cjk book)

nice explanation, i think you all should team up in making a nice manual 
about this!

Hans
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