I am forwarding this message to the AUCTeX developer list since there are people more actively involved with the language support there.
Georgi Boshnakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear David, > > I experimented with Bulgarian support for AucTeX. > I dropped a bulgarian.sty file in the directory containing the other > language styles and this seemed to work > (a tex file using babel with bulgarian triggered the bg specifics) > but I have a couple of questions. > > 1. A number of files contain lists of supported languages. Bulgarian > is in the babel list but not in the others. Is the support more > comprehensive for languages mentioned in the other lists? > > 2. When I open a file, AucTeX recognises (among other amazing things) > the language but I was not able to find commands for explicit switch > from one language to another within a document. It is a good thing > that this aspect of language is orthogonal to others (e.g. coding > system). > > If you wish me to help with Bulgarian support, what form of > contribution will be most useful to you? To get the things rolling a > bulgarian style (see attachment) may be created from danish.el with > straightforward changes. > > > Thanks, > Georgi Boshnakov > > PS Regarding the encoding of the Bulgarian hyphenation patterns, I > uploaded the change suggested by you last year. Sorry for the delay, I > was away at the time and forgot about this when I came back. > > Quoting David Kastirup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Since not all TeX engines are happy with binary input, would it be >> possible to change all 8Bit characters in bghyphsi.tex to ^^xx >> sequences? >> >> In Emacs 22 (assuming the file has been loaded as Latin-1, cough >> cough), one can do so using >> >> C-M-% [ C-q 200 - C-q 377 ] RET \,(format "^^%02x" (encode-char (aref >> \& 0) 'ucs)) RET ! >> >> I append what I get doing that. It would appear that the need for this is moving away since Mojca has been converting the pattern files and setups for TeXlive to utf-8 recently, and that's more or less the main distribution path of TeX systems nowadays. I had already previously at one point of time given up on asking all upstream pattern authors since there were too many patterns affected in one way or other. I am glad that she has picked up the slack, though. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
