From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12990 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[3]: CJK support in ConTeXt Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:37:37 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <55476745.20030827123737@iol.it> References: <.134.221.25.121.1061968535.squirrel@www.t-hart.com> <523657689.20030827120717@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061981072 18110 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2003 10:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Aug 27 12:44:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19rxmw-0005AM-00 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:44:30 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C227D10B57; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:44:27 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp0.libero.it (smtp0.libero.it [193.70.192.33]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1CD10B26 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:38:09 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from OBLOMOV (151.29.130.132) by smtp0.libero.it (7.0.019) id 3F40A03C00188199 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:38:08 +0200 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.63 Beta/11) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <523657689.20030827120717@iol.it> 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:12990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12990 (I hate replying to myself, but ...) Ok, since it seems that e-Omega is starting to get some "mass" interest, I'm thinking about setting up a mailing list for it. Maybe two, one for users and one for developers. Any suggestions on the listserver to use? Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: GB> Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Tim 't Hart wrote: TtH>> Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: >>>My suggestion for supporting CJK characters in ConTeXt is to write a >>>new module using e-Omega. Even though e-Omega does not produce PDF >>>format directly, there are not much problem with DVIPDFMx. TtH>> When I first tried to use Japanese with ConTeXt, I first looked at TtH>> e-Omega. The reason I gave up and tried to adapt the Chinese module TtH>> was that e-Omega was unstable on my machine. Version 1.23 crashed TtH>> immediately (got stuck in a loop producing [] characters). I tried TtH>> 1.15 because I heard that was more stable. I got some Japanese TtH>> output with this version, but when I tried creating more than a TtH>> paragraph, it locked as well. But this was all a few months ago. TtH>> Does anybody know if things with e-Omega have improved recently? GB> I happen to be in the e-Omega task force, so I'm extremely GB> interested in any bug report you may have on it. For the GB> moment, let's stick to the 1.15 version, which is the official GB> version. GB> First of all, which TeX distribution are you using, and what GB> does the e-Omega banner say? I know there are people using GB> e-Omega for production use, so you might want to see if there GB> is an upgrade available for your distribution. GB> Secondly, do you have a test file I could give a look at? If it GB> needs any nonstandard extra files/fonts/metrics/packages, GB> please give me pointers to these as well.