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
Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
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 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 [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?
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
[NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
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)? 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?
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! Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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
