On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:22:03PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> (1) To what language group does malay belong? This determines the lang-*
> file that needs to be extended
"malay" use the normal a,b,c,d,....,z. there is no special char/shape exist.
> (2) What is the language code of malay?
malay is used in Malaysia and Indonesia. from
http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/, I have;
Malay [may]
>From http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html, I have
language code language family
-------- ---- ---------------
MALAY MS OCEANIC/INDONESIAN
> (3) How are the hyphenation patters named?
in babel, it is /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/inhyph.tex. small, just
3.2k file.
> (4) What labels are to be defined?
using the standard english->malay dictionary, (use names from babel's
bahasa.ldf and lang-ger.tex). Some of it probably irrelevant.;
preface -> pendahuluan
reference -> rujukan
abstract -> abstrak
bibliography -> bibliografi
chapter -> bab
appendix -> lampiran
contents -> kandungan
list of figures -> senarai rajah
list of tables -> senarai jadual
abbreviation -> penyingkatan
graphics -> grafik
unit -> unit
line -> baris
paragraph -> perenggan
index -> indeks
figure -> rajah
table -> jadual
part -> bahagian
page -> halaman
see -> lihat
proof -> bukti
months;
january -> januari
february -> februari
march -> mac
april -> april
may -> mei
june -> jun
july -> julai
august -> ogos
september -> september
october -> oktober
november -> november
december -> disember
days;
sunday -> ahad
monday -> isnin
tuesday -> selasa
wednesday -> rabu
thursday -> khamis
friday -> jumaat
saturday -> sabtu
many many thanks in advance.
alias/zamri
> If I have answers to this, I can add malay support rather fast, generating
> a format is then done by:
>
> texexec --lang=ml,en en
>
> (for an english format with ml patterns)
>
> Hans
>
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