On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 02:00:30PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
> Axel Freyn wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm not really programming in xelatex -- but wouldn't it be
>> possible analogous to LaTeX be making ε an active character, which
>> verifies whether the next character is κ, an then is
Am Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:52:40 +0200 schrieb Axel Freyn:
>>> internally by the typesetting system, such as in "\vskip 1 cm",
>>> then it would be much more elegant if the change of the keyboard
>>> could be avoided. For this useage, a nice solution would be to
>>> replace "cm" with e.g. "εκ" (small
Axel Freyn wrote:
Well, I'm not really programming in xelatex -- but wouldn't it be
possible analogous to LaTeX be making ε an active character, which
verifies whether the next character is κ, an then is replaced by "cm" ?
But how then could you use ε in a Greek control word,
as you would su
Well since the xetex engine/binary is modified one can
allow it to accept an optional line before \documentclass
for setting the "language".
If it is there change "language" if not assume "normal".
regards
Keith.
Am 15.10.2010 um 15:45 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
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> A
Hi Ulrike,
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:51:02 +0300 schrieb Alexandros Gotsis:
> > When, however, length units are used
> > internally by the typesetting system, such as in "\vskip 1 cm",
> > then it would be much more elegant if the chang
Am Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:51:02 +0300 schrieb Alexandros Gotsis:
> My point was rather simple: I think it will be easier to persuade
> Electra, my nine year old daughter, to use XeLaTeX rather than
> MSWord to type her school reports if she can understand what she
> types (including the typesetting
Alexandros Gotsis wrote:
A suggestion : suppose that, for some future version of XeTeX,
the first line of the file was treated specially if it started
(say) %! (or some analogous but currently unused sequence of
characters that can be found in most keyboards without
requiring language switchi
>My point was rather simple: I think it will be easier to persuade Electra, my
>nine year old
>
>daughter, to use XeLaTeX rather than MSWord to type her school reports if she
>can
>
>understand what she types (including the typesetting commands).
Then you need to create a simple format fi
Dear friends,
1.
It was not my intention to generate all this discussion on the subject, a
discussion that reached out even to religious arguments and polemics on
linguistic imperialism. My point was rather simple: I think it will be easier
to persuade Electra, my nine year old daughter, to us
