Re: distinguish different characters from different languages

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 6/10/2013 9:34 AM, Tim Li wrote:
> @hwitloc
> I don't think this is only an interword question, especially when
> you are typesetting a book like `The Joy of Chinese` which will involve
> many paragraphs containing many English words nested in Chinese sentences.
> So if users pay more attention to insert spaces when switcting different
> languages, they will pay less attention to the contents they are
> typesetting. In this case, we need ConTeXt to do this task (insert
> spaces when switching to English from Chinese) automatically.
>
> @Hans
> Which file or Which files should I read in the subpath of `scripts`? All?
>
>
>
>
>  > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:57:50 +0900
>  > From: hwitloc@gmail.com
>  > To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
>  > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] distinguish different characters from
> different languages
>  >
>  >
>  > This seems to be about inter-word spacing, rather than character sets.
>  >
>  > For the phrase: "据我所知，中国人将typography写作排版"
>  >
>  > The intuitive operation for ConTeXt should be to preserve the explict
> space after the comma, but the word "typography" is not seperated from
> the rest of the text with spaces.
>  >
>  > If you input the text as "据我所知，中国人将 typography 写作排版"
>  > Then the spaces should be preserved as in English or other languages.
>  > This was not the case once for Japanese, but a (temporary?) fix was
> put into the ongoing development version, I believe. The space removal
> was due to the fact that Chinese and Japanese do not use space between
> words in normal text.
>  >
>  > For now can you use the ~ or some like escape sequence to force a
> space where you want it?

it helps to know what can be downloaded from the website

http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm

the test suite has examples

Hans

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