Giuseppe Bilotta [21/05/02 12:17 +0200]:
>
> Monday, May 20, 2002 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> vdli> Enough experienced with latex I'm now having a go at context under
> vdli> linux.
> vdli> My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore,
> vdli> after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every
> vdli> option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to
> vdli> no avail:
> vdli> when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter",
> vdli> the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented
> vdli> vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under
> vdli> latex!).
>
> \mainlanguage[it]
>
> would turn on italian as the main language (and thus select both
> section texts and hyphenations patterns). This is more or less the
> equivalent of \usepackage[italian]{babel} for LaTeX. To ensure
> that ConTeXt knows about the Italian hyphenation patterns, have a
> look at cont-usr.tex in your texmf/tex/context/user directory and
> make sure that the line
>
> \installlanguage [\s!it] [\c!status=\v!start] % italian
>
> is uncommented. If it's not, change the file and recreate the
> cont-en format (assuming that's what you're using). You should not
> need any other change.
>
> To enable automatic recognition of the accented letters, you need
> to use
>
> \enableregime[il1]
>
> (assuming that your text editor saves the extended characters in
> ISO-Latin-1 format). This is more or less the equivalent of
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} for LaTeX.
My Context now speaks Italian ("Capitolo", "Indice" instead of
"Chapter","Contents") but still don't recognizes accented vowels even
though I followed your suggestions literally.
What should I check next?
Vittorio
