On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> As far as paper size is concerned, as mentioned by Matthew Skala, this
> information belongs into each document too. However, there are some
> situations where default settings can be useful though, for instance
> if you exchange TeX source files with
On 2011-11-04 at 10:21:41 +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Suggestion for TeX Live installation 2012 :
> Ask the user for his or preferred language setting,
> and make that the default.
That would break many existing documents. At least those written in
US English.
The inform
Khaled Hosny wrote:
> No idea, but I was not thinking about that, any way AFAIK Lorem Impsum
> is Latin so using it to test English hyphenation makes no sense
> (incidentally, someone at Mozilla thought it would be good idea[1].)
not exactly: lorem ipsum "looks like" latin. (it includes several
No idea, but I was not thinking about that, any way AFAIK Lorem Impsum
is Latin so using it to test English hyphenation makes no sense
(incidentally, someone at Mozilla thought it would be good idea[1].)
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/cssref/hyphens.html
Regards,
Khaled
On Sat, Nov 0
Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
And if the British author visits Germany he happily uses
\BenutzedieSprache{Englisch}
No, wait, without spaces???
\Befehlsnamensstart Benutze die Sprache\Befehlsnamenende{Englisch}
;-))
Only if he has launched the binary by typing :
\Teschhh
:-)
(an
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:16:21PM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:52:37AM +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
> wrote:
>
> > Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> > >Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
> > >corrections& submit PDF for prin
No that was not what I meant. I meant what change does the knuth.tex text
makes to the number of hyphenation that you get? do you get more
hyphenetaion with knuth.tex than using Lorem Impsum. By Lorem Ipsum, I did
not mean that there is a tex file but only meant the text itself as in
http://lipsum.
No that was not what I meant. I meant what change does the knuth.tex text
makes to the number of hyphenation that you get? do you get more
hyphenetaion with knuth.tex than using Lorem Impsum. By Lorem Ipsum, I did
not mean that there is a tex file but only meant the text itself as in
http://lipsum.
\input Lorem Ipsum
\bye
Does not work here.
Regards,
Khaled
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> what change does that make if one uses Lorem Ipsum... instead knuth.tex?
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:21
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:52:37AM +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> >Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
> >corrections& submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set
> >French or Russian as his default/preferred
what change does that make if one uses Lorem Ipsum... instead knuth.tex?
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:21:41AM +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> >
> > >except phil doesn't use latex, so can't
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:21:41AM +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
>
>
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
> >except phil doesn't use latex, so can't use polyglossia.
>
> True. But Khaled Hosny's solution was perfect:
>
> >\input knuth
> >\uselanguage{british} % or ukenglish or UKengl
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:17, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
>
> "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with TeX, and the Word was
> TeX." ?!
It might be that TeX was before Word ;) ...
> TeX is, traditionally, consistent across
> installations; what I am suggesting is that th
Ross Moore wrote:
Sorry Phil, but I agree with Mojca on this one.
I too can appreciate Mojca's perspective ...
Has it not always been this way in the TeX word?
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with TeX, and the Word was
TeX." ?!
Is not this consistency in TeX one of it
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> corrections & submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set
> French or Russian as his default/preferred language, so the printing
> house will print the document typeset with Russian hyphenation
> patterns. Wouldn't that be nice?
This kind of prob
Hi Phil,
On 04/11/2011, at 9:52 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
>> corrections& submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set
>> French or Russian as his default/preferred langu
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
corrections& submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set
French or Russian as his default/preferred language, so the printing
house will print the document typeset with Russian hyphenation
pat
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:21, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>
> Suggestion for TeX Live installation 2012 :
> Ask the user for his or preferred language setting,
> and make that the default.
Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
corrections & submit PDF f
Robin Fairbairns wrote:
except phil doesn't use latex, so can't use polyglossia.
True. But Khaled Hosny's solution was perfect:
\input knuth
\uselanguage{british} % or ukenglish or UKenglish, all synonyms
\input knuth
\bye
once I realised that "\input Knuth" was neither required
nor pro
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2011/11/3 Arthur Reutenauer :
> > Just edit your language.def file. Actually, you can create a one-line
> > file that says "british loadhyph-en-gb.tex" (not hyph-en-gb.tex!) and
> > create the format with fmtutil.
>
> The British hyphenation patterns are loaded in the XeL
Khaled Hosny wrote:
Even simpler (assuming the pattern is loaded in the format):
\input knuth
\uselanguage{british} % or ukenglish or UKenglish, all synonyms
\input knuth
\bye
Works for all etex based engines.
Excellent, thank you Khaled. Of course, it took me
a minute or two to discover
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 06:46:12PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2011/11/3 Arthur Reutenauer :
> > Just edit your language.def file. Actually, you can create a one-line
> > file that says "british loadhyph-en-gb.tex" (not hyph-en-gb.tex!) and
> > create the format with fmtutil.
> >
> The British
Merci, Arthur !
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Just edit your language.def file. Actually, you can create a one-line
file that says "british loadhyph-en-gb.tex" (not hyph-en-gb.tex!) and
create the format with fmtutil.
Arthur
--
Subscript
2011/11/3 Arthur Reutenauer :
> Just edit your language.def file. Actually, you can create a one-line
> file that says "british loadhyph-en-gb.tex" (not hyph-en-gb.tex!) and
> create the format with fmtutil.
>
The British hyphenation patterns are loaded in the XeLaTeX format so
that you can just
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