On 7-5-2011 4:19, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
In fact there are two different writing paradigms. One uses word
separator and another one uses spaces. My guess that the second one
might have arised in the modern era due to poor computer suppor. (If
they are using spaces, they have at least a chance
So what are the rules for mixing languages/scripts then?
I'm not sure there are any rules. There might be typographical traditions,
though.
I recently installed language blocking to the routers ... at some point I
think it will become 'block all' unless 'a few countries'.
There are
On 6-5-2011 10:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
We were originally preparing the example for XeTeX (which behaves very
weird anyway) and I would like to know how to typeset Ethiopic text in
ConTeXt.
Let's forget about xetex then. It's not that complex to add to mkiv as
we have mechanisms in place
be treated as a normal
space and writing should be no different than for any other European
language in Latin script.
Nothing attached.
There was an attachment originally (see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/68230), but maybe your
spam filter didn't like the Ethiopic spam.
(My
Ethi for script and AMH for language (but language should probably not
be needed).
Indeed, as the same behaviour can be expected for several different languages
using the same script.
Arthur
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Dear Hans,
We were originally preparing the example for XeTeX (which behaves very
weird anyway) and I would like to know how to typeset Ethiopic text in
ConTeXt.
The basic requirements are:
- Words may be split after any character (character = syllable; it's
in the range 1200-139F
to add Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic,
... etc. scripts, all inside the one default font?
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to use. That it: I would suggest to have some
setting that would tell exactly which glyphs to replace in the main
font, which features to use ... but then the user would say that this
font needs to be added.
That is: are we also going to add Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic,
... etc. scripts, all