Hi,
At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:32:17 +0100 (BST),
(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It does not really matter that these are interpreted, by default, as
> iso-latin-1. They could correspond to anything on your screen when you
> are typing, and you can set up translation macros in troff to ma
Hi,
At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:14:44 +0200 (CEST),
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think *ideograms* have fixed width everywhere.
>
> Well, maybe. But sometimes there is kerning. Please consult Ken
> Lunde's `CJKV Information Processing' for details. Exampl
On 21-Oct-00 Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:32:17 +0100 (BST),
> (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> B: Troff should be able to cope with multi-lingual documents, where
>> several different languages occur in the same document. I do NOT
>> believe that the right
Hi,
At Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:39:24 +0100 (BST),
(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone writing a document about Middle Eastern and related literatures
> may wish to use the Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish (all of which have
> different scripts), and also various Central Asian languages
> Would it be useful to add to the texinfo documentation a note
> explaining that `-a' should only be used for these situations?
I've added some words, thanks.
Werner
> A.1. At present troff accepts 8-bit input, i.e. recognises 256
> distinct entities in the input stream (with a small number of
> exceptions which are "illegal").
We need at least 20 bit (for Unicode BMP + surrogates) and the special
characters. A 32bit wide number is thus the right choice IMHO
> 1. Your 'charset' and 'encoding' are for troff or for preprocessor?
In general. I want to define terms completely independent on any
particular program. We have
character set
character encoding
glyph set
glyph encoding
>I thought both of them are for preprocessor. The preproces
Hi Werner (and all)
Thanks for this clarifying explanation. I have a couple of comments,
one explanatory, the other which, I think, may point to the core
of the question.
On 21-Oct-00 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Troff's multi-character naming convention means that anything you
>> could possibly need
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