Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 13 Jun 2006, at 8:25 am, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >>> On a more general level, if both ConTeXt and XeTeX are engaged in >>> converting legacy TeX hyphenation patterns to utf-8, should they be >>> coordinated in order to avoid duplication of effort? >>> >>> >>> >> anyone can use the patterns; of course bugs need to be sorted out, but >> given my experiences with pattern maintainance i will not drop them >> from >> context; too much has gone wrong in the past; but you can consider >> them >> to be generic so indeed we can avoid duplication of work. >> > > Indeed.... I have no desire to duplicate work. :) > > My main concern at this point relates to packaging and co-ordination > between the different macro packages that load patterns; we can't > expect latex users to be dependent on having context installed, or > vice versa. Patterns belong in a base tex installation, where they > can be available to any higher-level macro package. > well, the problem is that until now, most pattern files were basically latex oriented files; the same is kind of true with fonts: changes in related files and names take place, and are synced with latex and then bites contex users; i've kind of given up on that > This needs to be sorted out among a wider group than this mailing > list.... > well, installing the lang-* pat files only is an option, as is adding tex/context/patterns to the xetex input path in the xetex input path variable (although i believe that the tree is searched anyway);
also, given what people have to install nowadays, installing the context ipackage is not that big a burden (xetex binaries and associated libs are pretty big themselves anyway) Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context