Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
Hi Adam, ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. Thanh On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:57AM +, Adam Lindsay wrote: > Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:05:21 +0100: > > >The Thanh Han wrote: > > > >> do you have a test file for another language, for example english or > >> czech? Then I can translate that file to get a test file for vietnamese. > >> What is the current status of context support for czech? > >> > >> BTW, the current official vietnamese font encoding used by plain and > >> latex is named T5 instead of X5. You can get the latest stable version > >> of vntex (fonts + latex/plain support) at vntex.sf.net > > > >Can those working on vietnamese also cc Thanh (the famous pdftex author)? > > I have been. > > Thanh, would you say that T5 is a replacement, an update for X5, or a new > thing (meaning the enco-x5 work you did for ConTeXt should stay around)? > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lancaster University, InfoLab21+44(0)1524/510.514 > Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +, Adam Lindsay wrote: > The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: > > >Hi Adam, > > > >ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was > >renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's > >heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. > > Thanks. The questions now seem to be, is there a significant amount of > fonts/support files/work that relied on x5 that needs to be supported? > Because I just discovered that there were some serious bugs in the > ConTeXt interpretation of the x5 encoding, and that any regular user > would have demanded that something be changed! afaik nobody has used vietnamese with context yet, so just forget backward compability and do what is needed. Thanh ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:24:30AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > The Thanh Han wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +, Adam Lindsay wrote: > > > >>The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: > >> > >> > >>>Hi Adam, > >>> > >>>ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was > >>>renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's > >>>heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. > >> > >>Thanks. The questions now seem to be, is there a significant amount of > >>fonts/support files/work that relied on x5 that needs to be supported? > >>Because I just discovered that there were some serious bugs in the > >>ConTeXt interpretation of the x5 encoding, and that any regular user > >>would have demanded that something be changed! > > > > > >afaik nobody has used vietnamese with context yet, so just forget > >backward compability and do what is needed. > > so we can drop x5 and go for t5 (i.e. lm only needs to support t5) > > thanh: adam got most font stuff working like a charm! i'll add things to > the distribution wonderful. When Quy translates the latex2context howto to Vietnamese, I will give another try to switch to context :) Thanh ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
