Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: Maybe it is beacuse of the encoding of your .tex file. The encoding of my tex source file is cp936 and I edit with gvim. ConTeXt compiles OK when processing Chinese. I din't use \enableregime[utf] or \language[cn] to typeset Chinese. Ok this works. Another possibility

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Tobias Burnus asks: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If there is a recipe, I would like to help cook it. Getting UTF-8 input running with Chinese would be a godsend to me too. Duncan ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-12-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
piskala upendran wrote: hi, Mojca The complain about the fonts is 8t encoding. use 8r encoding. it should work ok. I got the palatino font using 8r encoding using the following. \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding]

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Hi, Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: Maybe it is beacuse of the encoding of your .tex file. The encoding of my tex source file is cp936 and I edit with gvim. ConTeXt compiles OK when processing Chinese. I din't use \enableregime[utf] or \language[cn] to typeset Chinese. Ok

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try set encoding=utf8, then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that is the reason I started

[NTG-context] modes in newtexexec

2005-12-09 Thread Johan Sandblom
Hello. Doing texmfstart texexec now appears to call newtexexec. However, newtexexec does not seem to handle --mode at all. Is it coming? Should I set it up so I can call texexec directly in order to use modes? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try set encoding=utf8, then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try set encoding=utf8, then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try set encoding=utf8, then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What is the value of your environment variables about LC_CTYPE and LANG ? Well, I use SCIM to input the characters and my locale is de_DE.UTF-8. As the input works everywhere (OpenOffice, vim in Xterm, gvim etc.) I'm positiv that the problem is the lacking support of

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hi guys,I can confirm that the UTF-8 input doesn't work for me too. If I convert the file info GBK (CP936), it works fine [I suggest to use the 'iconv' utility for the conversion :-)].I tested the UTF-8 output the followin ways:1) \enableregime[utf]\usemodule[chinese]Processing a file with

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Adam Lindsay wrote: Is there less kerning among CJK fonts? I would expect so. Classically any Chinese character has exactly the same width, which is the same as the height (square). Nowadays some are taller than wide. I'm quite certain that there is hardly any Chinese font with kerning as

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-12-09 um 00:08 schrieb Adam Lindsay: (or do you know a link of Apostrophe Lab?). I've found most of them on DAFont: http://www.dafont.com/en/author.php?author=128 Ah, thank you! Would be a real pity if they would've been lost. BTW I just made a symbol set for HardTalk: