Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello Hans,
>
> On 8/24/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I uploaded a new version of mkiv (regular zip).
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> - case changing using attributes and node processing
>>
>> simple test file for spacing and casing:
>
> I'm attaching a not-so-trivial test file for "casing", just to see how
> well it works for Croatian.
>
> A few observations:
>
> - LM doesn't have any lj, nj, dz, dž, ... (probably another request
> for the Polish guys)
hm, just write a small proposal ...
however, dealing with non present chars is to be dealt with anyway
> - It would be great if MK IV did the trasformation from digraphs to
> normal letters in case those digraphs are not present in the font
> itself (for ij, lj, nj, dz, dž, ... just as it would be great if
> ccaron was automatically composed out of c and caron if the letter
> wasn't present in that font).
\definefontfeature
[test][mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,complement=yes]
{\font\test = lmtypewriter8-regular*test at 12.3pt \test ljubljana
Ljubljana LJUBLJANA }
currently the complement only replaces LATIN/compat combinations (see
char-def.lua)
> Visually there is probably no difference in plain text, except in
> exactly the cases for which you're sending the tests (that's casing
> and spacing). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
> how the word "MJENJACNICA" is split into letters.
> Normal people still type n+j in text, not the digraph "?" (nj), but in
> case you get some text with those digraphs which are valid Unicode
> letters, it would be nice if they were processed ...
dealing with n+j in text is too dangerous to catch, unless we start
implementing complex language depenent replacements, and even then it's
messy (what to do when one really wants a nj (two char)) ... so, thos
old docs can best be converted to proper utf then
>> \starttext
>>
>> test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] x: xx \bfd x: xx}
>> oeps: test
>>
>> test \WORD{test TEST \TeX} test
>>
>> test \word{test TEST \TeX} test
>>
>> test \Word{test TEST \TeX} test
>
> Another few observations:
> - \word doesn't work in XeTeX
no, neither in pdftex i think; new
> - What exactly is \Words supposed to do (with non-first letters in a
word)?
make first chars uppercase but only when the next is a char; (i changed
it a bit, defs were not seen (overloaded later by macros)
> - ConTeXt with XeTeX outputs dozens of empty lines to the console.
indeed, has to do with the fact that i need to test if a font is present
on the system (file vs name stuff) and the empty lines are a side effect
of entering/exiting batchmode
> An extra challenge would be to get this work (but unless some Croats
> ask you for that or unless you have too much time left, don't bother
> about that - it needs slightly more than only lccode and uccode of a
> letter since there are three forms: one for lowercase [ljubljana ->
> lj], one for all-uppercase words [LJUBLJANA -> LJ] and one for the
> first letter of a word starting with an uppercase [Ljubljana -> Lj]):
>
> In Unicode:
>
> \word{?ub?ana} -> ?ub?ana
> \Word{?ub?ana} -> ?ub?ana
> \WORD{?ub?ana} -> ?UB?ANA
>
> \word{?ub?ana} -> ?ub?ana
> \Word{?ub?ana} -> ?ub?ana
> \WORD{?ub?ana} -> ?UB?ANA
>
> \word{?UB?ANA} -> ?ub?ana
> \Word{?UB?ANA} -> ?ub?ana
> \WORD{?UB?ANA} -> ?UB?ANA
as long as we have utf it's already taken care of
> In Latin transcript (in case you have problems seing some Unicode
letters):
>
> \word{ljubljana} -> ljubljana
> \Word{ljubljana} -> Ljubljana
> \WORD{ljubljana} -> LJUBLJANA
>
> \word{Ljubljana} -> ljubljana
> \Word{Ljubljana} -> Ljubljana
> \WORD{Ljubljana} -> LJUBLJANA
>
> \word{LJUBLJANA} -> ljubljana
> \Word{LJUBLJANA} -> Ljubljana
> \WORD{LJUBLJANA} -> LJUBLJANA
>
> See also:
>
> http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/collation/hr.xml
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
>
>> {\setcharacterkerning[extrakerning]\input zapf\endgraf }
>
> (That could be "backported" to XeTeX. I think it enables a similar
> feature now, but I should check.)
hm, i'm not going to backport everything; keep in mind that i these
features are not font related; actually future mkiv versions will also
do dynamic feature change so ...
anyhow, ... new upload to play with
Hans
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