Am Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:16:22 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex.
>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have
>>> any chance to succeed?
> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in
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Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos :
>> François,
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>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with
>>> xelatex.
>>>
>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do
>>> I hav
2012/9/4 François Patte :
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> Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos :
>>> François,
>>>
>>>
Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with
xelatex.
I would like to use babel with french
2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR :
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> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>> I know that French uses tiny spaces preceding double punctuation.
>> IMHO it should be a property of a font, not of a typesetting system.
>
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> Presumably you mean "a user-selectable property" rather than a static
> property (one would not wa
Am Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:45:53 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> Here luatex has an advantage that
> such features can be injected via lua without changing the font (if
> you know how to do it). I prefer this way because active characters
> may break some macros, eg a macro may expect an argument delim
I am confused, Zdeněk :
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Not the font, only the language.
but in your earlier message you wrote "IMHO it should be a property of a
font, not of a typesetting system."
So I am not at all clear what you are advocating : are you saying that
it should be
(a) a static pro
2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR :
> I am confused, Zdeněk :
>
>
>>> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
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>> Not the font, only the language.
>
>
> but in your earlier message you wrote "IMHO it should be a property of a
> font, not of a typesetting system."
>
> So I am not at all clear what you are advocating : are you
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Language feature of a font.
OK, now understood, but this does not address my concern
regarding the countless extant fonts that do not have
such a feature. Would it not be better to postulate
a solution that can be used with any extant font ?
** Phil.
2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR :
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> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>> Language feature of a font.
>
>
> OK, now understood, but this does not address my concern
> regarding the countless extant fonts that do not have
> such a feature. Would it not be better to postulate
> a solution that can be used with any e
2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR :
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> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>> If the system offered inserting features dynamically without requiring
>> users to understand font internals, it would be even better.
>
>
> Hear hear. As one who sits only on the edge of typography and
> ?fontography?, I find the present Xe
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
If the system offered inserting features dynamically without requiring
users to understand font internals, it would be even better.
Hear hear. As one who sits only on the edge of typography and
?fontography?, I find the present XeTeX interface almost unusable,
requiri
Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but
for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works.
I would add the new version of babel won't make things to
work automagically. Rather it will provide some tools to
ease making language files compatible with xete
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