First of all, all these localization settings should be able to turn on or turn off by user, TeXmacs should provided good default settings.
1. Space. Chinese words/lines don't need space character to separate, so ignore spaces and line breaks(by default) when import from LaTeX and ignore spaces in TeXmacs unless input by '\ ' or '\,'. Space character between Chinese-Chinese are ignored, space character between Chinese-English is ignored but extra space should be inserted automatically, and can be configured. LaTeX package CJK provides two environments: "CJK" and "CJK*", the latter one ignores spaces, and the former one treat spaces as one space. High level LaTeX package ctex ignores spaces by default. Most users ignore spaces so that line breaks don't bring extra spaces and they can write one paragraph in multilines and indent them in nested environments. So, please use "CJK*" environment by default, fix corresponding lines in SVN r7347. 2. Indent. Chinese paragraphs indent by width of two Chinese characters(all Chinese characters have same width), few exception. 3. Punctuation. Punctuation characters should not take a full width of normal Chinese character, that's too wide. And punctuation characters can be compressed more when required. 4. Line break algorithm. A line should not begin with punctuation characters. 5. Font. Chinese font is very different from english font. We don't have italic font because it's ugly, another shape of font is used for emphasize or annotation. And Chinese "bold" font is often another sans serif font used in section captions. So TeXmacs needs to support a family of Chinese fonts to get properly typesetting results. Fandol is a free Chinese font family: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fandol And english characters in Chinese font is ugly, so use English font for english characters in Chinese documents. That's the most important chinese localization issues. _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
