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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Writing Japanese using ConTeXt
> Right. Although there are many Chinese unicode fonts, Both unix and windows
> remap them to GBK or GB when used. As for Japanese in ConTeXt, I think
> it m
At 16:22 15/06/2003 -0600, you wrote:
For a detailed explanation, you should refer to the big book. But
actually the rules are not all that difficult--probably a good deal
simpler than European languages, I'd say. The most important thing to
know is that there is a certain set of characters that m
At 06:37 16/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
> you mix up two mechanisms:
Yes, after studying the Chinese module for a while, I also came to the
conclusion that I mixed up bad! :-)
So instead of enjoying the nice weather during the weekend, I wrote some
mapping files that will create s
Hans Hagen wrote:
> you mix up two mechanisms:
Yes, after studying the Chinese module for a while, I also came to the
conclusion that I mixed up bad! :-)
So instead of enjoying the nice weather during the weekend, I wrote some
mapping files that will create subfonts for EUC-JP encoding. Each sub
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:03:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> A few questions;
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> - How are the rules for breaking?
For a detailed explanation, you should refer to the big book. But
actually the rules are not all that difficult--probably a good deal
simpler than European languages, I'd say. The
At 13:48 08/06/2003 +0200, Tim 't Hart wrote:
Then I decided to try ConTeXt's UTF-8 support. I created the following test
file:
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you mix up two mechanisms:
(1) the one used for chinese is not utf but an installable multi glyph
mechanism, where the first glyph triggers a font and the second
Hans, please tell me what I can do to help implementing Japanese support in
ConText, or what more information you need to get a better overview of
things that need to be done. I don't know much about ConTeXt yet, but I'll
promise to do my best.
My best,
Tim
If you need any help with documentat
Hello Hans,
You wrote:
>one of the first things to do is to collect fonts in suitable encodings and
>post them somewhere (or at least post scripts that generate them)
And
> for that i need to have samples and fonts,
I created a simple home page that will tell you where you can find some good
Hello Hans and Matt,
> >Can PDFTeX handle TTC files? I know ttf2afm/ttf2pk can process them, but
> >I have tried 2 or 3 times to include a Japanese TTC font directly in a
> >PDFTeX document, but was never able to make it work.
>
> dunno, maybe dvipdfmx can
I don't think PDFTeX can use TTC fonts.
At 18:33 09/06/2003 +0200, Tim 't Hart wrote:
When I look at the source of the Chinese module, the most difficult part for
me to understand is the part about font encoding, the enco-chi.tex file, and
the use of \defineuclass in that file. I guess it has to do something with
mapping the written tex
At 17:24 09/06/2003 -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Typesetting Japanese could be more complicated than Chinese because of
> the concurrent use of four writing systems:
dunno, could also be a challenge; as long as tagging is done properly i see
no real problem there
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:33:49P
Matt Gushee wrote:
What would a good sample consist of? I can probably find something.
Well, for starters I guess samples showing the interaction of the four
writing scripts (I'm thinking of glyph spacing and line-breaking here;
e.g., in the transition from native script to Romaji and back a
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:16:27PM +0900, Matthew Huggett wrote:
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> >Recently, I've made the 'unwise' decision to start studying Japanese next
> >year,
Unwise? Only if you don't really want to do it, or if you are laboring
under illusions--left over from the 80s--that it will guarantee you a
luc
Matthew Huggett wrote:
> I asked about Japanese a while back. Hans requested more information on
> encodings, fonts, etc. I don't know enough about these things or
> ConTeXt to know what is needed exactly.
> From what I've read, unicode is not that popular in Japan itself. ...
Unicode wasn'
Tim 't Hart wrote:
Recently, I've made the 'unwise' decision to start studying Japanese next
year, and of course I want to keep on using ConTeXt to write my school
papers. [] So I decided to find a way to
write Japanese in ConTeXt.
First I tried using the eOmega/ConTeXt combination since I hav
Hello all,
This is my first message to the list. I've been using ConTeXt for a few
months now, and so far it does everything I want to do with it, plus much
and much more!
Recently, I've made the 'unwise' decision to start studying Japanese next
year, and of course I want to keep on using ConTeXt
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